Anne Hathawayis continuing to be candid about her decision to stay dry for the sake of her son.
The Hustleactress is the cover star ofTatler‘s June 2019 issue, for which she opened up in an accompanying interview about her life as a mom to 3-year-oldJonathan Rosebanks— specifically, how the “just one drink” method doesn’t really work for her as a parent.
“My issue is I just love it. So. Much. But the way I do itmakes me unavailable for my son,” says Hathaway, 36, of her previous approach to drinking before she gave it up completely last year. “My last hangover lasted for five days.”
“I’d earned it — it was a day drinking session with friends that went into an evening birthday party with one of my drinking buddies,” she adds. But still, the star admits she “will never be that person who can nurse a glass of wine throughout an entire evening.”
Hathaway also addresses what she might have gone into professionally if not for acting: teaching, the military, being a “do-gooder with a death wish” — “But more likely than anything else Iwould have been an alcoholic,” she jokes.
Anne Hathaway forTatler.
The decision, she says now, is a logistical one completely based on how she feels after she drinks, Hathaway told the magazine, as opposed to a “moralistic” choice — and certainly not one she’s projecting onto anyone else.
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“I didn’t put [alcohol] down because my drinking was a problem; I put it down because the way I drink leads me to have hangovers and those were the problem,” she said inModern Luxury. “My last hangover lasted for five days. When I’m at a stage in my life where there is enough space for me to have a hangover, I’ll start drinking again, but thatwon’t be until my kid is out of the house.”
“But, I just want to make this clear: Most people don’t have to do such an extreme thing,” theSerenityactress clarified. “I don’t think drinking is bad. It’s just the way I do it — which I personally think is really fun and awesome — is just not the kind of fun and awesome that goes with having a child for me. Butthis isn’t a moralistic stance.”
Anne Hathaway coversTatler‘s June 2019 issue.
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In her January interview withEllen DeGeneres, Hathaway admitted she doesn’t “totally love the way” she drinks, explaining that Jonathan was “getting to an age where he really does need me all the time, in the mornings.”
“I did one school run one day where I dropped him off at school — Iwasn’t driving, but I was hungover,” the Oscar winner recalled. “That was enough for me. I didn’t love that [experience].”
“Another reason I don’t want kids,” joked the host, 61. “I’m not quittin’ drinking!”
The Hustlehits theaters May 10.
source: people.com
