This year 2024 is special for Denzel Washington. The Hollywood star, discovered particularly in films Malcolm X, Hurricane Carter or even Equalizerwill in fact celebrate its 70th birthday on December 28. Before the big day, the actor starring in Gladiator 2 by Ridley Scott, agreed to take stock of his life for the magazine Esquire.
Denzel Washington opens up about his wine addiction
In this long interview in which the actor rarely confides on a very intimate subject: his sobriety after suffering from alcoholism for so many years. Denzel Washington explains that he was addicted to wine between 1999 and 2014. “Wine is delicate, it builds slowly. It's not like a sudden boom. In 1999, we built a big house with a 10,000-bottle wine cellar, and I learned to drink what (…) Wine was my thing, and I was drinking $4,000 bottles just because that was what was left. I then called Gil Turner's Fine Wines &. Spirits on Sunset Boulevard and I asked them to send me two bottles (…) My wife then asked me, “Why are you only ordering two bottles?” “If you order more, I'll drink more.” So I stuck to two bottles and drank them both throughout the day.”he said frankly.
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