Tom Sizemore, the actor and "Celebrity Rehab" star, gave an interesting interview to The Fix -- the new website focused on addiction recovery, recently launched by Maer Roshan, the former editor of Radar.
In it, Sizemore -- who says he's been sober for almost two years -- revealed several interesting things, especially for those who follow spectacular Hollywood crashes like Sizemore's:
>> He's shot "seven movies in the past year."
>> He explained how he's been able to keep sober after failing at previous attempts: "It [has been] a few things: I [am] no longer young and addiction is a young man’s game. Also, I missed myself. And I didn’t want to die. Now that I have real clarity, I realize how dangerous what I was doing was. Not only were the drugs dangerous but also the people I was dealing with: drug dealers, hookers, layabouts, gangsters. I was so ashamed of myself that I couldn’t even go around Hollywood people doing drugs so I found myself with -- well, not street people but people above it: people who just live to use and use to live."
>> He's gotten a lot of advice from Robert Downey Jr., especially about staying sober while re-entering the Hollywood workforce: "Robert told me this was inevitable: you really want your career back, then you get it back, and you’re like, 'Whoa.' You think you might get f---ed up again because you have access to things again. And you worry you may disappear."
>> Sizemore apparently had a public breakdown recently at the gym, after realizing an upcoming role requires him to take his shirt off. "I had a complete breakdown -- in public, kind of, in the gym, when I took off my shirt and just went, 'Oh God.' But I have the capacity to worry about things that I shouldn’t."
>> Downey told Sizemore to hire a live-in sobriety companion, which he did: "Robert says that you are thinking about using drugs even if you don’t think you are. He told me I should [hire him]. He said, 'In the whole scheme of things, it’s not a lot of money compared to what you’ll make if you stay clean. If this guy helps you not use one time, he’s worth every dollar.'"
>> And about his experience on "Celebrity Rehab," he said: "When I first went in there, I was such a wreck, I didn’t even really realize the cameras were there. ... Now I kind of like the fact that I was on the show. I hated it before. I just thought it was for washed-up re-treads. ... I didn’t think about it much because I just wanted to get clean but when the show did finally air, I was like, 'Oh my Goodness.' I couldn’t watch it in the beginning."
Read the entire interview at The Fix.
