Noah Centineo shares sobriety update: 'Back on the wagon'
Noah Centineo is "back on the wagon" with his sobriety after recognising social drinking leaves him feeling "terrible".
Noah Centineo is "back on the wagon" with his sobriety.
The 30-year-old actor revealed in 2018 he was sober but two years later admitted he was no longer completely clean, and while he is "on the straight and narrow" when working, he has struggled during his down time so has quit the booze again after realising just how "terrible" social drinking makes him feel.
He said on the Happy Sad Confused podcast: “When I’m working, I try to be really really on the straight and narrow. There’s a huge responsibility on these projects, and I take them seriously.
“My problem is if I have a couple days or weeks between the projects where I go home and I’m with my family, and I’m like, ‘I want to drink a bottle of wine with my sister and my mom or I want to drink whiskey with my dad,’ that’s when I end up, like, blowing out because I’ve been so regimented.
“For me, the balance right now is [that] I’m back on the wagon, [the] proverbial wagon. I think I will be for a while.”
The To All the Boys I Love Before actor felt lucky he tackled his issues with drugs and alcohol when he did, because he thinks his problems could have got "way worse" if he hadn't taken action when he found himself at a "crossroads".
He said:“I do think it’s just lucky I was able to recognise what was happening to me in my life and the patterns of destruction that I just continued to fortify and partake and participate in.
"I went, ‘I think I’m at a crossroads. I think if I don’t figure this out and stop now, it’s going to get way worse.’ I believe that I was right."
Noah admitted things were "difficult" at the time so he'll always be grateful for the support around him.
He said: “I also had an overwhelming amount of support and love from a community, my parents and my sister and access to resources that make it a hell of a lot easier to recognise when things are going wrong.
“It was difficult for me, and it was my experience, and I’m still reckoning with that in my own ways in my own life. [It is] quite privileged … that I can even identify it.”
Noah began experimenting with drugs shortly after landing the role of Jesus Foster on The Fosters in 2015 but eventually got "scared" by what was happening to him.
He said: “Before I was on The Fosters, I was just a Valley kid. I was, like, auditioning and hanging out with friends and smoking a lot of weed and partying.
"I wasn’t really doing hard drugs quite yet.
“I started to dabble right around the time right after I booked The Fosters, but it wasn’t really because of anything outside of, like, I was in a relationship with someone when I was 18. They were a little older, and they were doing it, and I was like, ‘Oh, yeah, this is fun. You’re doing it. You’re cool. I think I love you.’ "
Working on The Fosters gave the actor a "sense of comfort" to continue the "lifestyle".
He added: “I thought that I had a buffer because I was making enough money to, like, support that lifestyle.
“By the time I turned 21, I woke up one morning, and there was a different guy looking outside of my head than the day before, and that scared me.”
