Stephen Moyer attended an event at the CLARE Foundation in Santa Monica on Friday, where he discussed his 14 years of sobriety. The Hollywood Reporter quotes the actor as follows, when talking about the fact that his sobriety is well known:
"As my wife said this morning, there isn't a restaurant in Venice or Santa Monica where I would be offered the wine menu. The Diet Coke, which is the Patron Saint of drinks for alcoholics, gets put before me before anyone even asks what we're drinking. Self-loathing motivates the desire to get loaded in the first place, and post-sobriety, there is the shame of admitting all of your [faults]. It's about education. And it's about getting rid of that shame/"
The actor went to rehab in England years ago, at a facility that was able to work out a program which he could afford.
