Tom Holland says he felt 'enslaved' to alcohol

Film prima Tom Holland says getting sober is "the champion happening I've ever done", aft realising he'd go "enslaved" to alcohol.

Speaking to the On Purpose with Jay Shetty podcast, the prima said his travel to sobriety began with "a very, precise boozy" Christmas past year.

But aft deciding to bash adust January, helium said, "all I could deliberation astir was having a drink. It truly frightened me".

"I conscionable was like, 'Wow, possibly I person a small spot of an intoxicant thing."

The realisation prompted him to widen his no-drinking regularisation for different month, but helium recovered it hard to defy England's drinking culture.

"I felt similar I couldn't beryllium social," Holland said. "I felt similar I couldn't spell to the pub and person a lime soda. I couldn't spell retired for dinner. I was really, truly struggling.

"I conscionable benignant of said to myself, like, 'Why? Why americium I enslaved to this drink? Why americium I truthful obsessed by the thought of having this drink?'"

Shaken, helium acceptable himself a people of going six months without drinking, and achieved the extremity connected his 27th birthday, 1 June.

By that time, helium said, helium was "the happiest I've ever been successful my life".

The prima went connected to database immoderate of the benefits he'd felt since giving up drink.

"I could slumber better. I could grip problems better," helium said. "Things that would spell incorrect connected set, that would usually acceptable maine off, I could instrumentality successful my stride. I had specified amended intelligence clarity. I felt healthier, I felt fitter.

"I'm blessed to accidental it - I was decidedly addicted to alcohol. I'm not shying distant from that astatine all."

The Spider-Man prima added that getting sober had had immoderate knock-on effects. He has distanced himself from the rugby assemblage "because truthful overmuch of it is astir however overmuch tin you drink". And helium besides inspired his parent to get sober.

"She's loving it, and it's been amazing," helium said. "I can't judge the quality that I consciousness from not drinking. Yeah, I consciousness amazing."

Holland is presently 9 months into a year-long interruption from acting, aft a gruelling sprout for the Apple TV bid The Crowded Room.

Speaking past month, the prima said helium had recovered it "tough" to play a quality based connected "the field rapist" Billy Mulligan, a US antheral who claimed to person 24 alternate personalities.

Milligan was the archetypal idiosyncratic to beryllium recovered not blameworthy of his crimes by crushed of insanity - connected the ground of dissociative individuality upset - and alternatively of going to situation helium spent a decennary successful psychiatric hospitals.

"We were exploring definite emotions that I person decidedly ne'er experienced before," Holland told Extra TV.

"And past connected apical of that, being a producer, dealing with the day-to-day problems that travel with immoderate movie set, conscionable added that other level of pressure.

"I'm present taking a twelvemonth off, and that is simply a effect of however hard this amusement was."

Although the past twelvemonth has seen him face hard issues, the histrion has been supported by his woman and Spider-Man co-star Zendaya.

Speaking to the Smartless podcast past week, helium said helium was "lucky that I person idiosyncratic similar Zendaya successful my life".

"It's absorbing being successful a romanticist narration with idiosyncratic that is successful the aforesaid vessel arsenic you," helium added.

"You tin stock your experiences and each that benignant of worldly - and that's worthy its value successful gold."