It’s not easy to share the good, the bad, and the ugly parts of life, but we think that we can all agree that when a person does share those moments, it does help someone. Sometimes in life, a person can feel completely alone and when someone opens up, it makes them feel less alone.
It makes them feel seen.
Alexander Ludwig opening up about sobriety and being there for others, who may need to ask for help and are afraid to, is definitely important.
On April 23rd, the actor posted about reaching a milestone – five years of sobriety. The caption?
“Hang in there ❤️,” he wrote.
On his Instagram video he said, “We’re celebrating two things. One is my five years of sobriety birthday, and the other is on this same day three years ago, the day I went on my first date with my wife, which I think is pretty serendipitous.”
“It’s pretty crazy to me that five years ago to the day, I was so lost, so confused and so scared about where my life would go. All I knew was that I had an issue and a problem that needed to be fixed,” he said and continued, “I’ve lost a lot of friends to this disease, so many people didn’t make it and I don’t really know why, because there’s so many reasons why that should have been me and not them.”
At this point watching the video, we couldn’t help but tear up, “I don’t want to make this video as, like, congratulatory to myself, it’s really just for anybody that needs to see this. If you’re struggling, be brave enough to ask for help and take it from me, there really is hope at the end of the road, there really is a light at the end of the tunnel. It’s actually staggering to me how much has changed in my life since I got out until now.”
We’d like to thank Alex for opening up and being there for others. We’d also like to congratulate him on his sobriety birthday.
