The 87-year-old Silence of the Lambs star remembered being "drunk and driving [his] car in California in a blackout, [with] no clue where [he] was going," in a chat with The New York Times' The Interviewpodcast on Oct. 25.
- Anthony Hopkins on realizing he needed to stop drinking
He also revealed he heard a "vocal, male, reasonable, like a radio voice" speak to him, and from then on, he no longer had a desire to drink alcohol. “It was 11 o’clock precisely," he shared. "This is the spooky part: Some deep, powerful thought or voice spoke to me from inside and said: ‘It’s all over. Now you can start living. And it has all been for a purpose, so don’t forget one moment of it.’ ”
“The craving to drink was taken from me, or left," he said. "Now I don’t have any theories except divinity or that power that we all possess inside us that creates us from birth, life force, whatever it is. It’s a consciousness, I believe. That’s all I know.”
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"Approaching 88 years of age, I wake up in the morning going: 'I’m still here. How?’ ” he questioned. “I don’t know. But whatever’s keeping me here, thank you very much! Much obliged!”
Anthony Hopkins' new memoir, We Did OK, Kid, will be released on Nov. 4, 2025.
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