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Star jokes about alcoholism
06/05/2007 21:31 - (SA)
San Francisco - Actor Robin Williams said
on Thursday that he had not drunk alcohol for 10 months since
announcing publicly that he was entering treatment for alcohol
abuse.
In August his spokeswoman said he had "found himself
drinking again" after two decades of sobriety. "Ten months," he
told reporters on arrival to San Francisco International Film
Festival where he won an acting award. "I had 20 years before
that."
"It's nice to know there are others out there, including
the mayor," he said, referring to San Francisco Mayor Gavin
Newsom who recently said he was seeking similar treatment.
"Honesty is the best thing and he did it great in dealing
with it," said Williams, star of films like "Good Will Hunting"
and "Mrs. Doubtfire."
"That's the hardest thing of all, admitting 'I have a
problem.'"
Williams, who once joked about his heavy drinking in his
comedy routines, made some references to his latest struggle
upon receiving San Francisco Film Society's Peter Owens award
for acting "brilliance, independence and integrity."
"It's a great honour to be honoured by a festival sponsored
by a vodka company," he joked at a black-tie dinner in a San
Francisco hotel. "Just out of rehab, it always good to go right
to a place with a bottle of Skyy on every table."
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