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Actor LaKeith Stanfield is being transparent with fans in revealing he battled alcoholism and his journey to sobriety while fighting anxiety!

In a recently released interview with GQ LaKeith spoke on feeling responsible in letting fans known how serious addiction can be.

The California native revealed that he first noticed his addiction while he was shooting the Jay-Z produced film ‘The Harder They Fall.” LaKeith says that he found himself canceling a massage due to overwhelming anxiety and immediately wanting a drink.

“I just got up, canceled the massage, and told [the masseuse] to leave, and she was probably like – what the hell is going on? And I didn’t really know what was happening either. I just thought, I’m anxious, let me just drink some wine. As soon as I drink the wine, the anxiety goes away.”

“This is something I never really had talked about before, but I think it’s something that I need to talk about, because I want people to understand that it’s something that you can get through, that it’s something that you can get past.”

He continued, “And I want people to feel empowered by the fact that the person they’re looking at on that screen has gone through addiction and survived it.”