Anne Hathaway reveals she has been sober for 5 years

Speaking about her five-year journey in sobriety, Anne Hathaway gets real The New York Times podcast The interview. Hathaway, an Oscar winner, mother of two, and Princess of Genovia (in my heart), discusses the significance of her personal milestone and her decision to get sober.

“There are so many other things that I consider milestones,” says Hathaway, 41. “I don’t normally talk about it, but I’ve been sober for over five years. That feels like a milestone to me. 40 feels like a gift.”

Hathaway quit drinking in 2019 and shared her decision to do so Ellen Degeneres Show. ‘I’m going to stop drinking as long as my son lives with me. “I don’t really like the way I (drink) and he’s getting to an age where he really needs me all the time in the morning,” she explains. She later said the turning point was when her son was dropped off from school. “I was hungover and that was enough for me. I didn’t like that one.”

In conversation with Vanity fairHathaway explained that she views her relationship with alcohol as an allergy. And once she started avoiding it, her life got better.

“If you are allergic to something or have an anaphylactic reaction to something, you don’t fight it. So I stopped arguing about it,” she says. “My personal experience with it is that everything is better,” she says. “For me it was like that wallow fuel. And I don’t like to wallow… I make a lot of my lifestyle choices to support mental health. I stopped participating in things that I know are exhausting or could cause spirals.”

In the extensive interview with The New York Timesit’s clear that making those choices had a huge impact on who Hathaway is today. She’s having more fun being herself than ever before, and it shows. She quickly corrects interviewer David Marchese when he calls her a New Jersey people pleaser.

“I’m a former people pleaser from New Jersey,” she says proudly.