Colton Haynes is officially six months sober following a dark period of heavy drug and alcohol abuse.
According to his very open interview with Attitude Magazine, the actor said he went to treatment for four months.
Detailing his usage of alcohol, the 30-year-old “Teen Wolf” alum said in the last 10 years, there were maybe 25 days he didn’t drink. But things really began to “spin out of control” when he came out of the closet in 2016.
“I came out, and in a way, my downward spiral started,” Haynes added. “I felt extremely free but at the same time the amount of attention I was getting was making me spin out of control.”
In the last year, Haynes divorced his husband, Jeff Leatham, after less than a year of marriage and his mother, Dana, passed away from cirrhosis of the liver.
“At that point, I fell apart. My brain broke,” Haynes recalled. “I was doing a massive comedy for a studio, showed up to work and got fired on the first day. They said I looked as if I had ‘dead in my eyes’, and I did. “
Haynes explained that his substance abuse escalated because “I was drowning in my own s–t.”
After a week-long bender, he hit rock bottom.
“I locked myself in a hotel room at the Waldorf Astoria in Beverly Hills for seven days and was found in my room with these insane bruises all over my body,” he recalled. “It looked as if somebody had beaten the s–t out of me. I couldn’t walk, so I was falling everywhere. I almost ruptured my kidney, ended up in the hospital, ended up in 5150 psych hold. I was on such a destructive path that I could not function.”
As a result, he temporarily lost partial vision in his left eye and had two seizures. He calls the defining moment in his life a “rude awakening.”
He then went to treatment for four months, where he says he learned to love himself.
“I’m always going to be in recovery,” he said. “There are so many people struggling out there, but not a lot of them talk about it. Life is much more beautiful than I could have imagined.”