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John Goodman's Sobriety: 'I Was Eating Alcoholically' — From 400 Pounds to Recovery

John Goodman's Sobriety: 'I Was Eating Alcoholically' — From 400 Pounds to Recovery

Actor John Goodman opens up about quitting drinking in 2007, eating alcoholically to four hundred pounds afterward, and why recovery is still ongoing work nineteen years later.

Source

John Goodman Recalls 'Eating Alcoholically' After Getting Sober: 'I Was at a Position Where I Had to Be Hospitalized One Way or the Other' — People, Oct 20, 2026 (interview originally published in The New Yorker).

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