A few days ago, I watched Amy, the documentary about Amy Winehouse, for the first time. I’ve been thinking about it ever since, thinking about a life destroyed by drugs and alcohol and the tenuous, self-destructive relationship someone can have with sobriety. There were so many what-ifs about Winehouse’s life – what if she had gone to rehab before she became a mega-star, what if she never married Blake, what if her father wasn’t such a son of a bitch. I came away from the documentary having a sh-tload of respect for the celebrities and regular people who do manage to go to rehab and stick with their sobriety, and build a new sober life and rebuild their careers. Colin Farrell is one of those people – he struggled with drugs and alcohol throughout his 20s. He bottomed out in 2006 and went to rehab and it stuck. He built a new life for himself. And now he’s back in rehab:
Colin Farrell continues to prioritize his sobriety. The Irish actor has checked himself into a treatment facility, E! News can confirm. “It was preemptive,” the source adds. “He did it to reset his life. He’s not using right now at all.”
According to The Daily Mail, who broke the story, Farrell is seeking professional help from The Meadows—an elite rehab center in Arizona whose previous clients include the likes of Selena Gomez, Harvey Weinstein, Tiger Woods and more.
In May 2017, Farrell celebrated an entire decade of sobriety during an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. The 41-year-old has previously detailed his years-long battle with alcohol and drug abuse, and Farrell first checked into rehab after filming 2006’s Miami Vice.
Since the Amy doc is fresh in my mind, I’m giving Colin the benefit of the doubt here – maybe he didn’t backslide. Maybe he didn’t use. Maybe something happened to him that was very triggering and he decided to go into The Meadows as a precautionary measure. So many addicts need to go back a few times, just to get their heads together and to peace out on the world full of triggers. In any case, I’m wishing Colin well.
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