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Denzel Washington Has Been Sober for 10 Years, Says He Used to Drink Two Bottles of Wine a Day and ‘I’ve Done Damage to the Body’


Denzel Washington reveals he stopped drinking at 60 years old and has been sober for a decade. He used to drink two bottles of wine a day.

Denzel Washington revealed to Esquire magazine as part of a recent cover story that he is 10 years sober. I drank the best,” Washington said, noting how he tricked himself into thinking alcohol wasn’t an issue when in reality he was having two bottles of a wine a day. “About two years ago my good friend, my little brother, Lenny Kravitz, said, ‘D, I wanna hook you up with a trainer.’ And he did, and he’s another man of God.

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