Jason Isaacs has asked fans not to congratulate him on 22 years of sobriety.
Jason Isaacs
The 57-year-old actor acknowledge the milestone on social media this week and insisted he "is and was useless" by himself.
He tweeted: "22 years ago today I stopped taking drugs and drinking. I'd tried for decades, but was too smart, too capable and too successful to manage. Only when I admitted that I needed help did my life change. Thank you to every addict and alcoholic who's ever lifted me up. Please don't anyone congratulate me or tell me they're proud of me.
"I am and was useless by myself. Pride's the worst part. If you feel the desperate need to click, retweet it to let other people know where's a solution out there. (sic)"
He shared a similar message with his followers on Instagram as he posted a photo with his partner as they smiled at each other.
He wrote: "My beautiful wife Emma and I in Sep 1998 looking pretty happy. We weren’t. 3 weeks later, on October 5th, 22 years ago today, I managed 24 hours without taking any drugs or drinking alcohol."
The 'Harry Potter' star - who has two daughters with Emma - has previously opened up about his "addictive personality" and by the age of 16, he'd already been abusing alcohol and turned his attention to illegal substances, and refused to listen to pleas to stop for almost 20 years.
He explained: "I was convinced no one came from the same twisted, dark, cracked mould as I did, so advice from anybody else was coming from normal people from the normal world. What could they possibly understand about me and the noise in my head? I was terminally unique. I've always had an addictive personality and by the age of 16 I'd already passed though drink and was getting started on a decades-long love affair with drugs. Every action was filtered through a burning need I had for being as far from a conscious, thinking, feeling person as possible. No message would get through for nearly 20 years."
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