Bradley Cooper Speaks About His Previous Struggles With Cocaine Addiction And How Lost He Was

Bradley Cooper got candid about his previous cocaine and alcohol addiction struggles.

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Will Arnett also spoke about Cooper’s addiction and said he experienced a metamorphosis.

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Cooper was featured on the Smartless podcast to speak about how he realized his addiction.

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He had an incident while on drugs where he intentionally smashed his head and had to be hospitalized.

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Cooper’s addiction started a while before he became famous and PEOPLE’s 2012 Sexiest Man Alive.

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He said it wasn’t until he acted in The Hangover at 36 years old that his career took off.

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Arnett called Cooper’s realization that he needed to take back control of his life a “metamorphosis.”

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Cooper also credited Arnett for helping him step onto the “path of deciding to change my life.”

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Cooper has never hidden his struggles with addiction, and he previously opened up about it to GQ magazine in 2013.

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