Liam Payne recently opened up about his struggle with alcoholism and his road to getting sober. Now, he’s getting set to make a movie all about his experience in Alcoholics Anonymous.
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The former One Direction star was a guest on The Diary of a CEO podcast and spoke about his battles with substance abuse while being a part of one of the world’s biggest boy bands.
"In the band... the best way to secure us, because of how big we’d got, was just to lock us in our rooms. What’s in the room? A mini-bar," Payne said. "So at a certain point I thought, I’m just going to have a party-for-one and that seemed to carry on for many years of my life... It was wild but it was the only way you could get the frustration out."
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Payne became sober and credited comedian Russell Brand with helping him. The two attend Alcoholics Anonymous programs together as Payne said “there was everyone from prison guards to ex-soldiers to postmen to bin men, me and Russell.”
“It was the weirdest room,” he added. “We’re in some old community church room and he’s taking the chair and doing stand-up.”
Liam then revealed that he’s written a short film about his experience and it's taken the form of a comedy. “I am not going to give the script… and I've not spoken to Russ about it yet. But I am one of the characters,” he said.
“I’m excited about the film. I showed it to one of my friends and she laughed a lot.”
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