{"id":395660,"date":"2025-11-21T23:23:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T23:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/395660\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T23:23:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T23:23:18","slug":"billy-bob-thornton-realized-he-was-gonna-die-during-height-of-his-drug-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/395660\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Bob Thornton realized he was ‘gonna die’ during height of his drug addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cLandman\u201d star Billy Bob Thornton has been sober for years and managed it all on his own.<\/p>\n

\"NEWPORT<\/p>\n

NEWPORT BEACH, CALIFORNIA – JUNE 07: Billy Bob Thornton attends 2025 Newport Beach TV Fest at Lido Theater on June 07, 2025 in Newport Beach, California. (Photo by Jerod Harris\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

On the \u201cAfter Dinner Thinks with Ann Wilson\u201d podcast, he explained, “I was a drug addict. I quit drugs when I was 24. I did everything. I even was on morphine for a while, ’cause I had a nurse friend.\u201d<\/p>\n

But he hit a rock bottom and realized he needed to do something, recalling, \u201cI’m glad I quit when I did. Because I was this skinny little long-haired hippie, working as a roadie, and I looked in the mirror on an airstream trailer one day and said, ‘You’re gonna die. You have to stop.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Thornton revealed he had to quit cold turkey.<\/p>\n

“Back then they didn’t have programs and support groups and things like that,\u201d he said. “I quit on my own. I sweated it out for about four days.”<\/p>\n

\"NASHVILLE,<\/p>\n

NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE – NOVEMBER 18: Billy Bob Thornton attends the 2025 BMI Country Awards at BMI on November 18, 2025 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Tibrina Hobson\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

While Thornton is happy he quit all drugs, he does believe there are lingering positive effects from one substance he tried in his youth: psychedelics.<\/p>\n

He revealed he tried acid and \u201cdidn’t like it. I didn’t have good trips. And I kept doing it ’cause everybody else was doing it.”<\/p>\n

However, he added, “I do believe it did unlock my mind to be a better artist. I honestly believe that psychedelics helped me as a writer and as an artist in general.”<\/p>\n

While the \u201cBad Santa\u201d actor feels those experiences happened to “another person” because he’s changed so much since then he believes the effect of the drug is “still around.”<\/p>\n

\"BEVERLY<\/p>\n

BEVERLY HILLS, CA – JUNE 19: Actor Billy Bob Thornton attends the 4th Annual Critics’ Choice Television Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on June 19, 2014 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter\/Getty Images for Critics’ Choice Television Awards)<\/p>\n

“It’s so funny to think about those days, ’cause it almost seems like another person to me. But I think it still resonates, and the residue of it is still around,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Thornton added, \u201cAnd I’m not sure Paul McCartney and John Lennon were wrong when they said doing acid and opening their minds up did help them with whatever [song] it was.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cLandman\u201d star Billy Bob Thornton has been sober for years and managed it all on his own. NEWPORT…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":395661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-395660","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-san-antonio","10":"tag-sanantonio","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115590268186389706","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}