‘Yellowstone’ star Wes Bentley says Robert Downey Jr. impressed him to beat his heroin habit: ‘It saved me’

Yellowstone‘s Wes Bentley credit Robert Downey Jr. with serving to him overcome an habit to heroin.

Talking to Web page Six, Bentley shared how Downey’s candidness about his personal previous drug use — impressed him to get clear. From the mid-’90s to 2001, Downey, 57, was arrested quite a few instances for drug costs, leading to almost a year-long stretch on the California Substance Abuse Remedy Facility and State Jail. Regardless of his earlier cycle of rehabilitation and relapse, the Iron Man star has been drug-free since 2003, having fun with a profession comeback within the course of.

For Bentley, who began utilizing medication after his breakout position in 1999’s American Magnificence, Downey served for example of what may be attainable.

“I used to be within the deepest throes of my habit and within the worst place and at dying’s door, I assume, or prone to it and I noticed him be so daring and courageous and open and it saved me,” the actor, who has been sober since 2009, advised the outlet at Yellowstone‘s Season 5 premiere. “So I assumed if I do this too, I can perhaps move that on to any individual else.”

Like Downey, Bentley’s substance abuse led to brushes with the regulation. In 2008, the actor, now 44, was arrested for heroin possession. Although his subsequent court-ordered therapy was adopted by a relapse, the Starvation Video games star efficiently bought sober a 12 months later.

“I met a man who had been sober and didn’t know, that I used to be struggling,” he advised Web page Six. “He simply talked about what an attractive life he had now, and the way he’s searching the window on the bushes, and I missed that. And I assumed, I need that again. In order that’s how that occurred. So I simply went to conferences and the 12-step conferences actually helped me so much. I already had perception in God, in order that form of helps — the upper energy factor.”

Bentley, who performs Jamie Dutton on Yellowstone, says his newfound fame contributed to his drug use.

“I by no means had cash earlier than,” he famous. “So there was plenty of mixture of issues I wasn’t ready for.

“I additionally knew as an actor that I wasn’t going to be actually able to do good roles till in my 30s and 40s. So I didn’t actually need it to occur like that too early. I attempted to go along with it and cling with it, however I wasn’t prepared.”