This weekend, a star of Vikings took advantage of his fifth year of sobriety to open up in all honesty about his hard fight against alcoholism.
It’s no secret that Alexander Ludwig fell into alcoholism when he was younger. “The first time I drank I was around 14 years old. I quickly became addicted. I probably had 14 shots that night. I was nothing without the parties“, he revealed in an interview with the magazine Variety. “I went out with everyone and I ended up alone with myself, in a room somewhere, without knowing where I was. I woke up in a ditch, ended up in fights or arrested by the police“. Faced with this addiction, the star of Vikings made the decision to seek treatment upon entering a rehab facility in his early twenties. From, the 30-year-old actor no longer drinks a drop of alcohol and recently celebrated 5 years of sobriety.
“I was so lost, so confused and so scared…“, reveals Alexander Ludwig
This weekend, Alexander Ludwig celebrated his 5 years of sobriety with a simple video in which he details his fight against his addiction, which made him lose friends, and delivers a message of prevention to his millions of followers. “It’s crazy enough for me to think to myself that five years ago to the day I was so lost, so confused and so scared of where my life would go.. I lost many friends because of this diseaseso many people didn’t make it out and I don’t really know why me, because there are so many reasons why it should have been me and not them. All I knew was I had a problem, that needed to be solved“, he initially said in a video posted on his Instagram account.
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“It’s amazing how much it’s changed in my life“
And to continue:If you are struggling, be brave enough to ask for help and take it, there really is hope at the end of the road, there really is light at the end of the tunnel. It’s amazing how much things have changed in my life since I got out of it.. It’s amazing what can happen when you decide to love yourself and commit to loving yourself and growing as a human every day instead of satisfying those impulses we all have.“. A beautiful message of hope hailed by those close to him, including actors Aleks Paunovic, Chase Stokes, Kristin Chenoweth and Nina Dobrev.
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