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Tom Holland Says 'Struggling Without Booze' During Dry January Pushed Him Towards Sobriety

'Spider-Man' star Tom Holland shares that “it scared me because I had a really tough time”

Tom Holland says that he realized he had “a bit of an issue” with drinking after he struggled to make it through Dry January in 2022 The Spider-Man alum said that made him give up alcohol for longer stretches — until he’d made it a year and decided, “This is the best version of myself” He shared that his relationship with alcohol had been "complicated," saying he'd relied on it to cope with insecurity in social situations “I couldn't quite wrap my head around how much I was struggling without booze in that first month — and It really scared me,” the Spider-Man star, 28, said on Oct. 17 episode of the Rich Roll podcast. That's why I really latched onto drinking because it masked that insecurity with stupidity," says Holland, adding that these days, he doesn’t “try as hard to go out to the L.A. parties and mix with celebrities that I don't know.”

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