Overview
- Hopkins posted a video on Instagram on Dec. 29 recounting how a near‑fatal drive while heavily intoxicated led him to quit drinking.
- He urged people who struggle with alcohol to seek help, saying life improves after stopping and encouraging viewers to choose life.
- He said he first lived in denial, then got help, and he continues to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.
- He cited Dec. 29, 1975, as the day he decided to stop drinking, a detail reported by Promiflash and noted in German press coverage.
- His October memoir, We Did OK, Kid, had described a doctor’s warning about premature physical decline and his gradual recognition of alcoholism.