Jason Bateman Details “Negotiations” With Wife Amanda Anka Before He Got Sober
Jason Bateman credits his wife Amanda Anka for helping him end unpredictable partying, leading to sobriety after steady work on Arrested Development in 2003.
- On Wednesday, February 18, Jason Bateman told The Hollywood Reporter he negotiated with his wife about when his partying should end, saying he felt his sobriety ETA was six months away but wanted to 'land this plane' now to ease tension.
- Career momentum and family plans drove Bateman to end partying, with Anka saying he wanted to 'get a lot of these boxes checked' before becoming a father, he said.
- Bateman says he gave up alcohol and 'the Scarface stuff' while now being 'California sober'; recovery steps included therapy and a helping friend, leading to one year of sobriety.
- Since getting sober, Bateman embraced the 'Grandpa' nickname and enjoys family rituals like moving an Elf on the Shelf, which strengthened his marriage and role as father to daughters Francesca, 19, and Maple, 14.
- Drawing on earlier career lessons, Bateman said he grew up before social media and camera phones, which let much partying go unseen, and he first tried to get sober over 5 years ago.
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Actor Jason Bateman (New York, 57) was chaining successes from an early age: The Prairie House, Silver Spoons, The Hogan Family... Offers rained on him and he accepted them. Until the situation changed: failures, quickly cancelled projects and a decade — the decade of the nineties — of unrest. When the pace of work he had been facing during his adolescence stopped, he decided to recover lost time. “It was a big slap in humility. It was scary to …
Jason Bateman says 'tension' with wife led him to finally get sober
The "Arrested Development" star said he'd seen others hit "chilling" lows with drinking that he sought to avoid.Jason Bateman and Amanda Anka in 2017 David Livingston/Getty Jason Bateman has put his partying days behind him, and he has his wife to thank for it.The Arrested Development and Ozark star broke through to household-name status when he was well into his 30s, and not all his fans realize that his Hollywood career began in childhood. Lik…
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