Josh Brolin Gives credit to stepmom. Barbra Streisand Along with helping him stay calm.
gave The Mound The actor, 56, opened up about his relationship with Streisand, 82, during an appearance on Wednesday, Nov. 18.The Howard Stern Show.”
The host Howard Stern congratulated Brolin on his sobriety — he quit drinking in 2013 — and asked him about the time Streisand declined a request for a glass of red wine. Legendary actress Answered“But aren’t you drunk?”
Brolin told Stern, 70, how much he cares about his integrity. “I mean, we argued for years, you know, because she was so straight,” he said. “And maybe reminded me, in some way, of a more healthy version of my mother.”
She added of Streisand, “She was like, a typical Jewish mother, who was like, ‘You can’t do that because it’s going to hurt you. You know, you’ve got to eat. You You look very thin.’ … He’s like, ‘Why would you drink? You’re an alcoholic.'”
Brolin said he “likes that level of honesty regardless of my reaction. I’m like, ‘Look, you’re not going to stop me from doing what I want to do. I’m an adult.’ And she was like, ‘No, you’re an alcoholic, I can’t give you alcohol because it’s bad for them.’
The sack Starr called Streisand’s blunt style “a language that took me a while to learn and that I now fully embrace.”
Brolin is the actor’s son. James BrolinAs the TV shows were known for. Marcus Welby, MD And movies like Catch me if you can. James, 84, married Streisand in 1998.
Josh’s late mother, JainDivorced James when Josh was 16, after which he moved in with his father in Los Angeles. Before that, he grew up on a farm in Paso Robles, California.
He opens up about his childhood, his addiction and his acting journey in a new memoir, From under the truckwhich will be released on Tuesday, November 19.
“I was born to drink. I was born to drink. My mother drank just like I did, and I was raised to be a man and I drank like a man like my mother. Yes,” Brolin Write in the book.
He first tried marijuana at age 9 and threw up acid at age 13, leading him down a long path of drug abuse, particularly alcoholism. He tried to keep his alcoholism away from his two older children. (He shares Trevor, 36, and Aidan, 29, with his first wife, Alice Adair. After marriage Diane LaneThat ended in 2013, with Josh tying the knot. Catherine Boyd. pair Share the daughters Westlane, 6, and Chapel, 3.).
Eleven years ago, he recalled waking up hungry outside his home and fighting at a fast food drive-thru in Santa Monica. He picked himself up and went to his 99-year-old grandmother’s deathbed, where he realized she was in the middle of her life.
At that time, he Decided to be smart. “I knew it was the last time I drank,” Josh said.