Overview
- In an interview with The Times, the 78-year-old said he has been sober for 16 months and now attends Alcoholics Anonymous meetings every day.
- He previously quit during the 2015–2016 Broadway run of School of Rock without support, a willpower-only attempt he said led to a secret relapse.
- He described a steep decline about a year and a half ago that strained his family, saying his wife felt she could not go on.
- He called his first AA meeting life-changing and now wears two leather bracelets, including one with his late son Nick’s name, as prompts to stay on track.
- He said sobriety has sharpened his creative outlook, and BILD reports he plans to auction his wine collection at Christie’s from April 22 to May 6 to benefit the Music in Secondary Schools Trust.