{"id":1517354,"date":"2022-06-15T13:50:27","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T17:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1517354"},"modified":"2022-06-15T13:51:18","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T17:51:18","slug":"i-was-so-lost-bradley-cooper-reveals-when-he-realized-he-had-a-problem-with-drugs-and-the-actor-who-helped-him-turn-everything-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-was-so-lost-bradley-cooper-reveals-when-he-realized-he-had-a-problem-with-drugs-and-the-actor-who-helped-him-turn-everything-around\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I Was So Lost\u2019: Bradley Cooper Reveals When He Realized He Had \u2018A Problem With Drugs\u2019 And The Actor Who Helped Him Turn Everything Around"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">50<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fi-was-so-lost-bradley-cooper-reveals-when-he-realized-he-had-a-problem-with-drugs-and-the-actor-who-helped-him-turn-everything-around%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1517354&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Bradley Cooper opened up about the moment he realized he had \u201ca problem with drugs and alcohol\u201d and how he credits actor Will Arnett with the reason he was able to turn everything around.<\/p>\n<p>During the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/bradley-cooper-said-full-frontal-nudity-in-nightmare-alley-wasnt-gratuitous-but-it-was-pretty-heavy\">47-year-old actor\u2019s<\/a> surprise appearance on 100th episode of the \u201cSmartLess\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9yc3MuYXJ0MTkuY29tL3NtYXJ0bGVzcw\/episode\/Z2lkOi8vYXJ0MTktZXBpc29kZS1sb2NhdG9yL1YwL1V0Zi1lZmFlNU9GSzBCNmdHWDFXSjFVQVladXZ2ZTAtcUlOWWswcGhkcVk?hl=en&#038;ved=2ahUKEwjInbzI8q_4AhVroI4IHWlZAtwQieUEegQIBRAF&#038;ep=6\">podcast<\/a>, Cooper talked about his early days in Hollywood when he shared an apartment building with the \u201cArrested Development\u201d star and how Arnett, who has been open about his own recovery, was the reason he ultimately realized he had a problem and found sobriety, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/lifestyle\/lifestyle-news\/bradley-cooper-maestro-sobriety-smartless-podcast-will-arnett-1235165548\/\">Hollywood Reporter<\/a> stated in a piece published Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The two recalled a dinner party and how Cooper said because he was \u201can insecure person\u201d he tried to mimic the mean humor of the comedians at the time. Later, Arnett dropped by and said he was a \u201creal asshole.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWill was like, \u2018Hey man, do you remember we had dinner the other night? How do you think that went?\u2019 I was like, \u2018I remember being at the dinner thinking I was so funny, and I thought these two guys who were my heroes thought that I was so funny,&#8217;\u201d \u201cThe Hangover\u201d star explained. \u201cI thought it was great. I thought I was killing. Will\u2019s like, \u2018You were a real asshole, man. You were a real asshole.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Arnett then asked the actor if he had even taken his dogs out of the apartment that day as it was 4 p.m. and Cooper hadn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>He explained \u201cthat was the first time I ever realized I had a problem with drugs and alcohol. \u2026 The guy that I think is doing mean humor is telling me the truth and it changed my entire life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cAmerican Sniper\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/bradley-cooper-hollywood-oscar-season-is-utterly-meaningless\">star<\/a> said he had \u201czero self-esteem\u201d back then and wasn\u2019t aware he was hurting others because \u201chow could I if I\u2019m worthless? I was so lost, and I was addicted to cocaine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Around the same time he \u201cgot fired\/quit\u201d a job on the hit show \u201cAlias\u201d and suffered an injury.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWill took that risk of having that hard conversation with me in, like, July of 2000 and that put me on a path of deciding to change my life,\u201d Cooper explained. \u201cIt truly was Will Arnett \u2014 he is the reason.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cA Star Is Born\u201d actor was previously romantically linked with supermodel Irina Shayk, with whom he shares a 5-year-old daughter. At one point in the interview, the actor talked about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/actor-bradley-cooper-fatherhood-miracle-paul-bois\">joys of being a father<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFatherhood \u2026 everything changed,\u201d Cooper said. \u201cEvery single thing is absolutely shaded by or brought out in glorious colors by the fact that I get to be a father to a wonderful human being. It\u2019s just the absolute greatest thing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bradley Cooper opened up about the moment he realized he had \u201ca problem with drugs and alcohol\u201d and how he credits actor Will Arnett with the reason he was able to turn everything around. During the 47-year-old actor\u2019s surprise appearance on 100th episode of the \u201cSmartLess\u201d podcast, Cooper talked about his early days in Hollywood &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":1517419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1517354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1517354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1517419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1517354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1517354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1517354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}