Robin Williams Battles Bottle
Robin Williams has "found himself drinking again."
In response, the Oscar-winning actor is taking "proactive measures to deal with this for his own well-being and the well-being of his family," publicist Mara Buxbaum said Wednesday.
Williams, 54, began drinking again "after 20 years of sobriety," Buxbaum said.
The announcement came in the wake of a National Enquirer story claiming the 54-year-old Williams recently checked into a rehab facility in Oregon run by the famed Hazelden program.
The statement from Williams' camp does not mention the R-word, and does not elaborate on what the "proactive measures" entail. Last week, Mel Gibson likewise eschewed the R-word in announcing that he'd "begun an ongoing program of recovery" in the wake of his infamous drunken-driving arrest.
Williams' latest movie, the thriller Night Listener, opened last Friday, taking in an underwhelming $3.6 million over the weekend. According to the Internet Movie Database, the ever-industrious actor, who already starred this year in the family comedy RV, has at least three more movies due out in 2006, including the animated feature Happy Feet.
Williams, who Oscar'd in 1998 for Good Will Hunting, "looks forward to returning to work this fall to support his upcoming film releases," Buxbaum said.
Long a family-friendly brand sold in hit comedies such as Mrs. Doubtfire and Patch Adams, Williams exposed a darker side in movies like One Hour Photo.
"I'd been going dark and nasty, but the audience just didn't buy it," Williams said recently in the London Mirror.
In his personal life, Williams was believed to have ditched his hard-partying ways after the 1982 death of John Belushi. Williams, then 29, was one of the last people to see Belushi alive before the Saturday Night Live star's fatal drug overdose.
In his 1986 comedy album, A Night at the Met, Williams riffs on alcohol, marijuana and cocaine--and why none are particularly productive hobbies.
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