Denzel Washington is getting real about his battle with alcohol, admitting his wine consumption ravaged his body.
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00:00Denzel Washington getting ready for the rollout of Gladiator 2 can be huge
00:05The movie is gonna be huge and what he just revealed will make you have think about his career and much different
00:13With some different perspective in his heyday when he was winning Oscars when he was in these huge films
00:21He had a problem. He now admits it was definitely a problem and it was wine
00:26Lots of wine and really really expensive wine
00:30He said it all started when they built a big house in 1999 with a
00:3510,000 bottle wine cellar and I learned to drink the best wine was my thing and now I was popping
00:41$4,000 bottles just because that's what was left
00:44I'd call Gil Turner's fine wines and spirits on Sunset Boulevard by the way
00:48I lived a block from there shout out to Gil Turner's and say send me two bottles and my wife would be saying
00:54Why do you keep ordering just two I said because if I order more, I'll drink more
00:58He said he would have at least two you would have two bottles a day. How can you do now?
01:03And he would how can you function he would do that when he wasn't shooting movies?
01:07So he said he'd do that for a few months and then go shoot a movie
01:11He would stop and then soon as the movie is over. He'd go back to it
01:15and
01:17He knew that at a point. This was too much. It was a problem
01:20He says in December. He will be celebrating a big milestone for his sobriety
01:25Ten years ten years ten years that he has completely stopped drinking. He said he cut out the stuff completely
01:32Hangovers really played a big role in this he got tired of having to take so long to recover
01:37I think we've talked about it on the show the older you get the harder it is to recover from
01:40Long nights of drinking two bottles of wine. I can only imagine that hangover
01:44So yeah, and he said he noticed like his physical body was just changing and he knew that he was getting older
01:50Denzel 69 now, so he said he needed to just do better
01:54He also said that back in the day. He shot up dope, which is I'm pretty sure heroin
01:58So, but you know what? A lot of people are saying that's not a big surprise
02:01He was a rich man and the 80s were drugs were heavily, you know filtered through the streets
02:06So that's not a big surprise that he did that but a lot of people are also saying where is all this coming from Denzel?
02:11dropping all of these
02:13revelations that we never really heard him talk about and here he's just dropping all types of
02:17New people that people are talking now, they're talking about the movie
02:20I mean it all kind of makes it some talking about him gets him talking about the movie and maybe it all has to do
02:25With also him saying winding down. So gosh, maybe it'll be more secrets to come before he fully retired
02:30Maybe like 25 years ago
02:34I went to dinner with a couple of friends at the Ivy and though one of my friends was an agent
02:41With William Morris, and he said I got a couple of people coming
02:45And all of a sudden
02:48Denzel Washington and Lenny Kravitz come to the table and sit down. Was he carrying a bottle of wine?
02:54No, that's what I'm trying to remember. Where was he? Did he order wine? Yeah, and I'm having a I think the answer is yes
03:00It sounds like it would definitely be yes, unless he was shooting a movie at the time
03:04But I thought we were gonna become really good friends. Oh never heard from
03:08Never heard from him at the table never heard from him after the table
03:12But again four thousand dollar bottles of wine, oh my gosh, and I know he has the money but still I can't father
03:19There's there's a guy. There's a guy who was a big Hollywood producer
03:22His name is Jerry Parencio and he owned the Beverly Hillbillies house that you know the exterior
03:28Huh? So he owned that house. He had this huge wine cellar with this insane
03:33When he sold the house, he sold all the bottles of wine. Are you ready?
03:4036 million dollars
03:42There was 30 and there was Denzel backing up the truck