Fox News Flash top entertainment and celebrity headlines are here. Over the course of 15 years, Denzel Washington was drinking up to two bottles of wine a day, a habit that "did a lot of damage" to his body. In a new interview with Esquire, the "Gladiator ll" star, 69, opened up about his past alcohol abuse and why he chose to find sobriety nearly ten years ago.
"Wine is very tricky. It’s very slow. It ain’t like, boom , all of a sudden," Washington said.
"And part of it was, we built this big house in 1999 with a 10,000-bottle wine cellar, and I learned to drink the best. So, I’m going to drink my ’61s and my ’82s and whatever we had. Wine was my thing, and now I was popping $4,000 bottles just because that’s what was left.
DENZEL WASHINGTON ‘SCREAMED’ AT DIDDY DURING AN ALL-NIGHT PARTY IN 2003 BEFORE ‘STORMING OUT’: REPORT Denzel Washington recently opened up about his past alcohol abuse. (Stephane Cardinale/Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images) "And then, later in those years, I’d call Gil Turner’s Fine Wines & Spirits on Sunset Boulevard and say, ‘Send me two bottles, the best of this or that.’ And my wife’s saying, ‘Why do you keep ordering just two?’ I said, ‘Because if I order more, I’ll drink more.
’ So, I kept it to two bottles, and I would drink them both over the course of the day." Though Washington said he "never drank" while he was working or prepping for a film, he would immediately go back to it after wrapping a project. "I’m.
