Anne Hathaway is celebrating a major milestone in her journey to sobriety.
The 41-year-old actress shared a new profile on the New York Times who had been without alcohol for five years.
She gushed that the achievement felt like a “milestone” and added that being “forty years old feels like a gift.”
The Princess Diaries star, who teased a third film in the series in the same interview, shared her update years after revealing years earlier that she hoped to stay away from alcohol until her first child turned 18.
In January 2019, she appeared on the Ellen DeGeneres Show, which has since ended, to discuss how expanding her family with husband Adam Shulman had made her want to get sober.
Anne Hathaway, 41, revealed she was marking five years of sobriety in a new New York Times profile published over the weekend; Pictured on Sunday in New York.
“I’m going to stop drinking as long as my son lives in my house,” she said, clarifying that she wanted to wait until Jonathan, who was two months shy of his third birthday at the time, was 18.
“I don’t love the way I (drink) and he’s getting to the age where he really needs me all the time in the mornings…” she continued.
Anne said that one particularly bad day after a night of drinking convinced her to quit.
‘One day I did a school run and left him at school. I wasn’t driving, but I was hungover and that was enough for me,” she admitted. “I didn’t love that one.”
Her decision to focus on sobriety became even more important that same year, when her second son with Adam, Jack, now four years old, was born in November.
While updating the Times on her new profile, Anne seemed a little conflicted about sharing her good news.
‘There are many other things that I identify as milestones. “I don’t normally talk about it, but I’ve been sober for over five years,” she shared, before adopting a more optimistic tone.
“That seems like a milestone to me. Forty feels like a gift,” she continued.
The Brokeback Mountain actress added that she was hesitant to admit she was in “middle age,” but only because she was aware of how life can take unexpected turns.
“The fact of the matter is that I hesitate to call things ‘middle-aged’ simply because I can be very semantically strict and might get hit by a car later today,” she said on a darker note. ‘We don’t know if this is middle age.
“We don’t know anything,” he corrected himself.
Anne’s current domestic bliss comes after she married Adam Shulman, a businessman who also occasionally acts, in 2012.
Although she credited her two children for giving her the motivation to get sober, Anne and her husband tend to be particularly reserved with their children.
Her relationship with Adam was a welcome change from a previous stress-filled relationship with Raffaello Follieri, an Italian real estate developer.
“That seems like a milestone to me,” he said, adding that “forty feels like a gift”; seen Monday in New York
After starting a family with her husband Adam Shulman, whom she married in 2012, Anne decided to give up alcohol. The two share sons Jonathan, eight, and Jack, four; seen in January 2023 in Paris
Anne told Ellen Degeneres in 2019 that she decided to stay away from alcohol until Jonathan turned 18 after getting hungover one day when someone else drove her son to school; photographed in 2022 in Cannes, France
The two began dating in 2004, but the façade Follieri had created around him was shattered in 2008, when he was arrested for misappropriating funds from former President Bill Clinton and billionaire Ronald Burkle that were expected to be used to buy properties that the Roman Catholic Church had decided to sell.
Folliere was investigated by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and subsequently arrested.
Anne became embroiled in controversy when the FBI raided her home and took her private diaries as potential evidence, although she was never charged with or charged with any crime in the matter.
Follieri pleaded guilty and was sentenced to four and a half years in prison.
