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Actor Bradley Cooper opened up about his substance abuse issues.
The 47-year-old said fatherhood “changed” everything for him.
“I was so lost, and I was addicted to cocaine — that was the other thing,” Cooper saud. “I severed my Achilles tendon right after I got fired/quit ‘Alias.'”
Cooper also says he’s struggled with self-confidence and “was totally depressed.”
“I did have the benefit of that happening when I was 29,” Cooper explained, referencing his substance abuse issues.
“I thought I made it when I got a Wendy’s commercial. In terms of the ‘made it’ thing, that’s when I made it.”
“But I definitely did not feel [it], moving to Los Angeles for ‘Alias’ feeling like I was back in high school. I could not get into any clubs, no girls wanted to look at me.”
“It wasn’t really until ‘The Hangover.’ I was 36 when I did ‘The Hangover,’ so I got to go through all those things before fame even played into my existence on a daily level,” he explained. “So all that happened before any of that.”
“Fatherhood is … everything changed,” Cooper said. “Every single thing is absolutely shaded by, or brought into glorious colors, by the fact that I get to be a father to a wonderful human being.”
Cooper has a five-year-old daughter named Lea De Seine.
“You have this wonderful thing or breakthrough with a script, or you have a wonderful moment on this set or in an editing room … you have like 40 of those moments every day with your kid, that are that level of joy.”
“That’s not spinning it, that’s just the truth.”
