Terminator 2 Star Edward Furlong Is 4 Years Sober & Ready To Act -- After Battle With Meth That Destroyed His Teeth
16.07.2022 - 05:25
/ perezhilton.com
If anyone knows there’s not fate but what we make, it’s John Connor.
Edward Furlong shared a fantastic update this week after a rough several years — and it has us filled with hope for the Terminator 2 star’s future.
After rising to fame as a teen in the ’90s, Furlong spent his 20s in a downward spiral of drug abuse that we frankly grew to expect would claim his life. He spent years doing meth and heroin, getting in trouble with the law over and over — even losing custody of his then-6-year-old son after allegedly exposing the boy to cocaine. If that was rock bottom, he didn’t bounce back from it right away. It took six more years to get clean.
But at 44 years old, the former child star is five years out from his last arrest — and has revealed he’s four years sober! Whoo!
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In an interview with DailyMail.com, the American History X actor spoke out after finishing filming on a new project, a movie called Charlie’s Horse, in Texas. Speaking about returning to the big screen after several years, this time having kicked his bad habits, Edward gushed:
On whether this is a whole renaissance for Furlong, he teased:
It would be really great to see.
Edward became a star overnight due to the enormous success of T2. Recalling that whirlwind experience for DM, he mused:
Hilariously, amid that blur he does specifically remember learning how un-glamorous the whole Hollywood thing is — it’s just a lot of folks doing a job that results in the magic you see onscreen:
Unfortunately becoming a star was the worst thing that could happen to him because of how few parental figures were in his life taking care of him. He was set up to fail because he