Spiderman star Tom Holland's journey to sobriety started with Dry January after having a particularly boozy Christmas period, but was worried about how much he was thinking about alcohol during this time. He decided to extend his dry spell for month, and then to his birthday in June to prove to himself that he didn't have an unhealthy relationship with alcohol. "I was really, really struggling and I started to really worry that maybe I had an alcohol problem. So I decided that I would wait until my birthday, which is June 1," he said on the "On Purpose With Jay Shetty" podcast. "I said to myself, 'If I can do six months without alcohol, then I can prove to myself that I don't have a problem.' And by the time I got to June 1, I was the happiest I've ever been in my life."
He added: "I could sleep better. I could handle problems better. Things that would go wrong on set, that would normally set me off, I could take in my stride. I had much better mental clarity. I felt healthier, I felt fitter. I just sort of said to myself, like, 'Why? Why am I enslaved to this drink? Why am I so obsessed [with] the idea of having this drink?'"
Now two years sober, he has said "It's honestly been the best thing I've ever done."