{"id":14722,"date":"2025-09-10T21:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T21:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/14722\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T21:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T21:49:08","slug":"jon-bernthal-has-had-a-huge-impact-on-tom-holland-ben-afflecks-sobriety-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/14722\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Bernthal Has Had a \u2018Huge Impact\u2019 on Tom Holland, Ben Affleck\u2019s Sobriety (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jon Bernthal has become a leader in Hollywood, on and off the screen, as The Punisher star has helped a ton of A-list actors maintain their sobriety.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s something special about Jon\u2019s energy and, yes, his sobriety, that people just want to be around,\u201d a source exclusively tells Globe. \u201cIt\u2019s not an act. The guy practices what he preaches.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the source, Bernthal, 48, has \u201chad a huge impact\u201d on actors like Tom Holland, Bradley Cooper, Shia LaBeouf and Ben Affleck, with whom he recently starred alongside in The Accountant 2.<\/p>\n

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\u201c[Tom and Ben] have had some tough demons to battle over the last few years,\u201d the source adds. \u201cJon has become a leader within his generation for this kind of stuff, and even his former costars like Shia LeBeouf look to him for guidance and support as they chart their own journeys.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bernthal \u2013 who is currently shooting his second film in a row with the Spider-Man star \u2013 has been sober since 2009 after a bar fight forced him to reevaluate his life.<\/p>\n

\u201cI ended up hitting a guy and he got knocked out and hit his head on the ground,\u201d Bernthal told Dax Shepard during a May appearance on his \u201cArmchair Expert\u201d podcast<\/a>. While behind bars, he recalled\u00a0 \u201cnot knowing whether this guy was going to wake up. It was literally as profound and clear a moment as I\u2019ve ever had.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Bernthal reflected on turning his life around before landing his role in The Walking Dead.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019re going this way, this is your life now,\u201d he added. \u201c[A year later] I was in Atlanta, starting The Walking Dead, engaged to my wife, a year sober. A year later, my first son, Henry, was born. I\u2019m like blown away with gratitude.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt all comes down to authenticity,\u201d the source says. \u201cJon comes from a very real place and relates to people and their struggles intensely \u2026 The guy is in incredible shape and he\u2019s a living example of what can be accomplished when you buckle down and focus on your mental and physical health.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jon Bernthal has become a leader in Hollywood, on and off the screen, as The Punisher star has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[9896,16902,430,16903,156,5690,111,139,69,16904,16905,16906,3866],"class_list":{"0":"post-14722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ben-affleck","9":"tag-bradley-cooper","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-dax-shepard","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-jon-bernthal","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz","17":"tag-press-agency","18":"tag-shia-labeouf","19":"tag-tom-and-ben","20":"tag-tom-holland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}