Lee Daniels: I hate f–king being sober
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Lee Daniels says that while it’s “a bore,” his sobriety is very important to him.
“I’m angsty and I’m sober, so that is really weird to be going to the Met Ball and to other social activities not intoxicated,” the “Empire” creator told New York Magazine. “I hate f–king being sober. It’s a bore. It’s a f–king snooze.”
Daniels, 59, said he initially got into drugs and alcohol because his father couldn’t cope with him being gay.
“I don’t do anything. It’s really hard, but believe me, I’ve done enough for everybody,” he shared. “I never really even liked to drink, but I drank because my father told me if he ever saw me with a man, he would kill me. And until I was 22, I had to get drunk to actually go through with the process. And then the drug scene came.”
The start of the AIDS epidemic only furthered Daniels’ addictions, as he turned to drugs and alcohol to help numb the pain of all the people he had lost.
“And then all your friends start dying of AIDS. Not one, not two, not three, I’m talking intimate friends that you’ve had sex with, you’ve had dreams with, hopes with, people that are better souls than you, gone,” he explained. “And you can’t figure out, ‘Why the f–k am I still here?’ So then it was like me on drugs and drinking, not even knowing I was an addict but just erasing all the pain.”
Still sober, “The Butler” director didn’t use when dealing with the fallout from Jussie Smollett’s allegedly staged racist and homophobic attack, though he certainly struggled in dealing with it.
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