"Terminator 3" actor Nick Starr sober for 4 years after battling drug and alcohol addiction

2021-11-12 07:56:39 By : Mr. kui wang

'I just let it happen'

Nick Starr, a former child star and Hollywood heartthrob, said that in his decades-long struggle with drug and alcohol addiction, he was never homeless, but "willingly live on the streets." The actor, known for films such as "Terminator 3" and "Faceless Man", explained in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter that his time on the street was when he was living in a sober house and taking drugs. . In 2012, Starr's wife at the time submitted a missing persons report stating that he had been living in a slum, which sparked a frenzy in the media. "Thank God, it's not the case," said Starr, who has been clean for four years.

"This is the worst-case scenario," Starr's friend, screenwriter and director Jacob Tierney (Jacob Tierney) said of that time. "I'm waiting for the call that he died." Starr also revealed to The Hollywood Reporter that he "is very upset about the work I do every day-as a child, when I was in my early 20s. , Through all the movies.” The actor worked steadily in the early 2000s and left Hollywood in 2012. For the next five years, he was “really involved in my recovery process,” he said, working for a friend’s moving company and a coffee shop in New York. Fans will recognize him occasionally, which "surprisingly empowers...and it is necessary."