Jason Bateman is reflecting on the impact his wife had on his path to sobriety. In a recent candid interview, the actor detailed what prompted him to quit drinking and give up his partying lifestyle.<\/p>\n
Jason Bateman talks about getting sober<\/p>\n
In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>, Jason Bateman talked about what led him to quit alcohol. The actor revealed that his marriage to Amanda Anka served as a major turning point in his journey to sobriety.<\/p>\n \u201cAmanda and I definitely had a few negotiations about the point at which the [partying] spigot was going to completely turn off. She\u2019d be like, \u2018This drip, drip, drip is annoyingly unpredictable, Jason,\u2019 \u201d Bateman shared.<\/p>\n \u201cShe didn\u2019t demand that I completely absolve,\u201d the actor added. \u201cBut that was sort of the back-and-forth, and I was like, well, I feel like my [sobriety] ETA is six months away, but if I could land this plane now, it would alleviate a lot of the tension, so let\u2019s just f***ing do it.\u201d<\/p>\n The Ozark star has been sober for years and has stepped away from his partying habits. \u201cI\u2019ve got friends who had bottoms that were pretty chilling, but I was lucky enough to recognize, \u2018This is probably as far as I should go if I still want to accomplish the things that I want to get to,\u2019\u201d the actor said.<\/p>\n The SmartLess podcaster added, \u201cI was conscious the whole time of wanting to get a lot of these boxes checked before I became a father and a guy with a career that I not only wanted but had a feeling I might be able to get it if I just got the right job.\u201d<\/p>\n Notably, Bateman is set to star in DTF St. Louis, an upcoming dark comedy miniseries developed by Steven Conrad. The series will premiere on March 1, 2026, on HBO.<\/p>\n The post Jason Bateman Got \u2018Sober\u2019 Because of His Wife<\/a> appeared first on Mandatory<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jason Bateman is reflecting on the impact his wife had on his path to sobriety. In a recent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[6937,236,88,6936,57054,2816],"class_list":["post-478437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-amanda-anka","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-jason-bateman","tag-sobriety","tag-the-hollywood-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}