Last Updated on January 2, 2025

The time between Christmas and New Year’s is a bit of a vacant blur. But Anthony Hopkins will always have something to celebrate, as December 29th marks his date of sobriety. And to mark his 49th year, Hopkins has shared a lovely video on his Instagram account.

Now 86, Anthony Hopkins took to social media (via Entertainment Weekly) to share his anniversary. “Well, 49 years ago today, I stopped [drinking]. I was having such fun, but then I realized I was in big, big trouble because I couldn’t remember anything and I was driving a car, drunk out of my skull…I phoned up a group of people like me — alcoholic — and that was it. Sober. I’ve had more fun in these 49 years than ever.”

Forty-nine years of sobriety for Anthony Hopkins would put that day in 1975, a time when the legendary actor had already been...