Two bottles a day and a 10,000 bottle wine cellar: Denzel Washington opens up about his past drinking problem

Is it just me or does he look like he aged two decades since his last film?

If that's what he's admitting to it was much worse.

Addiction, gay kissing hmmm he really wants Oscar #3 doesn't he.

This explains a great deal

Maybe he was drinking when he decided to ruin Gladiator II with his modern urban American accent.

He looks really old in that photo.

It's like he's morphing into Scatman Crothers.

meh.

Alcoholics love talking about their alcoholism.

R1 he lost weight and that can age people.

There’s a Korean stereotype of 65 year old women going from eternally young to Ed Asner overnight.

Our american version has men of color going from Denzel to Scatman Crothers.

I wonder if there was some long covid involved.

My guess is that it's his weight loss that makes him look so aged. He's nearly 70, after all, and extra weight can hide wrinkles.

All that self-righteousness sure ages a fella.

Lenny Kravitz should probably focus on saving his anorexic daughter.

Hooked up with a trainer, ey?

Two bottles of wine a day isn’t terrible for a guy his size.

Of course, it isn’t great either.

[quote] Two bottles of wine a day isn’t terrible for a guy his size.

Yes, Liza.

I like him. He’s alright by me.

Wealthy people cover up their alcoholism by being "wine connoisseurs." I know a well-off couple (gay men) who have a shitload of wine. The both just look like alcoholics, to me.

Denzel does look older, but he still looks better, IMO. More clear-eyed.

Does he open up about his 30-year cheating on Pauletta, his wife with all his female co-stars

Including the Jezebel Harlot whore of Babylon Angelina Jolie& the "Fish called Julia" Roberts.

Denzel looks "ashy as Fuck", needs a better moisturizer for drunken olde Black men who cheat on their wives.

2 bottles of wine is nothing

So what if he cheats on his wife? They probably have an arrangement.

r23=Joy Behar

He does whatever he wants and she puts up with it coz she enjoys the lifestyle he provides...

r23 This thread is about Denzel Washington, not Bill Clinton.

Amazing how financial success makes some people lose the run of themselves.

Glug!

what's your problem with it if his wife is OK with his whoring around? How do you know she's not fucking the pool boy?

Denzel looks denzold.

Wine doesn’t count if it’s stored in a cellar.

2 bottles of wine is a ridiculous amount. Only worse alcoholics would not think it is that much.

Glad he’s cleaned up his health- good for him. Yes, he is 70 and he looks his age and looks just fine. I guess on DL Cher, Madonna, and Wayne Newton are the only way to age.

I'd be throwing up if I drank two bottles of wine.

R22 in what I call my pre alcoholic phase,I was swilling down one bottle 4 times a week. 2 bottles a day is alot

If you aren’t smashing up your kitchen with empty magnums you aren’t doing it right.

Two bottles of wine in a day is nothing when you’re in your 30s. Different story in your 50s and 60s. I’m glad he stopped.

He looks old = he is old

That’s what I was downing before I got sober, R32.

It was more than too much. It was fucking AWFUL.

Anyone who’s drinking 2 bottles of wine every night has an unhealthy relationship with alcohol. It’s just as bad as vodka, scotch, or any type of booze.

Wasn't Depp downing 2 bottles a day? And he's much smaller than Denzel.

R40, perhaps more than 2 bottles, along with plenty of drugs, ALLEGEDLY.

Hope he’s better now, & doing well.

To R29, I was letting people know that Denzel was a cheating, lying dog. In my 5 1/2 years of posting on DL, I've never seen a Denzel post. I don't follow Denzel's career, but when you're feeling up a woman in front of me, I will notice this incident.

[quote] Two bottles of wine in a day is nothing when you’re in your 30s.

Are you out of your mind?

That’s only 8% ABV so it’s probably less than a liter of whiskey - that’s three good drinks per night. Perhaps if they were spaced….that may work with delusional alcoholics, but medium and late stage drunks don’t space our drinks unless we can have a free gulp in between.

Two bottles of wine is twelve glasses. Each glass of wine is a serving of alcohol. There’s no point in translating it to a volume of whiskey.

12 drinks a night, every night, is a serious problem.

He looks like a befuddled beaver in that picture.

Two bottles of wine a night is closer to eight drinks, R45. I don’t think Denzel gets those monstrous gallon jugs at Costco like you do.

Denzel has talked about his alcoholism before and there have always been rumors on celebs site including here. Why yall acting brand new? Someone can still be beautiful, smart, charming, a great actor and be an alcoholic. I cannot wait until boomers die because they truly see being an addict as a character flaw even the ones that are addicts. You can’t change that. They been brainwashed. Addiction is a disease. Just say no the first time.

Exactly, r47. Four glasses in a bottle. Spread out over the course of a day, eight glasses of wine, while excessive and certainly consumed to stay feeling buzzed, is not a falling down drunk amount. The health risks that can occur from drinking so much -- high blood pressure, high cholesterol, high blood sugar, gastric upset, and increased risk of cancer are far more dangerous than just being drunk. Plus the weight gain and dehydration make you look like shit.

Denzel's rampant alcohol abuse gave his film performances an extra level of gravitas and emotional heft. It's like when you think someone is interesting or special, only to later find out they are an addict and/or mentally ill. It's a type of je ne sais quois... albeit hardly magical.

r50 Quoi... not quois.

yeah...8 glasses of wine is not a big deal

According to the CDC, a serving of wine is 5 ounces, so there are 5 servings per bottle. Ten drinks a night is a big deal.

What kind of large ass glasses are y'all drinking on? Usually its 5/6 glasses of wine per bottle. And one bottle a day on, say, a Saturday or Sunday, is one thing, especially when spread out throughout the day. But Denzel was saying 2 bottles and every day.

I've always felt the 750ml size for 1 bottle of wine was just a smidge too little. It should be 1L - that's a perfect amount, particularly if you're splitting at dinner.

But often you have 1 bottle of wine, split it at dinner and want just a little more - but not enough to buy a whole other bottle of wine. I believe it's intentional.

Some of you people are lightweights - for a 6ft+ 200 lb man, a bottle of wine is not THAT much.

2 bottles EVERY night? I can see mistakingly doing that partying with friends and not keeping track like once or twice a year.

But once you're past 45, that's just unthinkable to do an a regular basis - particularly every night. It makes me wince and get sick just thinking about it.

I can drink a whole bottle of wine on a Saturday night - but I usually do the 0 sugar and 9% (low alcohol) wine. Most wines are 12-13%.

Where do you buy zero sugar wine? Any good? I like white wine

I was a caregiver for six excruciating months for members of a few golf clubs..

Everyone was over 70. Two glasses of scotch at lunch, half a bottle of wine at dinner, and two large glasses of famous grouse at the end of the day was part of the day.

They did very well alcoholically.

[quote] Some of you people are lightweights - for a 6ft+ 200 lb man, a bottle of wine is not THAT much.

It’s five drinks which for most people is a lot of alcohol. I don’t think the ability to drink a lot is anything to boast about, though I realize is some cultures, where early death is expected, it is boasted about.

Just smoke copious amounts of pot, silly.

I've learned from this thread that we have a lot of heavy drinkers at DL.

How can I get in on the black market for liver transplants?

Most people do not measure the amount of wine they pour in a glass.

In polite circles, it is generally is regarded as beneficial for the amount if alcohol poured to be less than the volume of the glass.

R16 Guy his size? He's a regular sized male.

LSA claims he was having an affair with Sanaa Latham

R63 He was chopping her and Eva Mendez down during the filming of Out of Time. But you ain’t heard that from me.

I remember when he was celebrated as a total stud.

I knew a terribly ill man who turned to piss drinking from quite ancient Ayurveda wellness practices. He was up to 2 bottles a day and asked healthy friends to donate their piss. I don't think that's the way it was supposed to be practiced.

R56 - there are multiple brands. I like the Chateau Ste. Michelle. They have both a Sauv Blanc and a Chardonnay. 80 cal per glass, 0 sugar, 9% alcohol. I'm not a Chard drinker, but my friend has bought it and it's not bad. Obviously not a buttery sugar bomb like some people like it.

You can drink a whole bottle and feel fine the next day.

Kim Crawford also makes them - but they are higher priced. They have two kinds - the 85 and the 70 calorie. Of course, the 70 calorie has like 6 or 7% alcohol - which is just more than a regular beer.

Matua has one. There are like 10 different brands in my local grocery here in SoCal. There's also FitVine - which is a zero sugar wine, but it has 13% alcohol, which is on the higher end of wine alcohol.

The FitVine gets me fucked up - and not in a good way. The problem with wine sipping is that it can get carried away - but the lower alcohol and zero sugar wines help with that.

2 bottles a day?

Also depends on how quickly you drink & finish them, R68.

R64 Didn't Will Smith also had and affair with Eva Mendez? Or was that a part of the entanglement?

R70 That was PR. Will Smith is a gay leaning bisexual and only likes domineering women. His oldest child’s mother was a beard.

Only if you stop, or take a long break from drinking alcohol do you notice what a total waste of time it is.

Just saying.

I'm more bothered by him paying $4K for single bottles of wine that he was downing twice a day. And by a wine merchant feeding this outrageously expensive daily wine habit. He could've bought a wine box and done some actual good with the savings while still getting blotto.

[quote] Exactly, [R47]. Four glasses in a bottle.

No, that's FIVE glasses in a bottle, according to most websites.

So two bottles per day is ten glasses of wine per day.

That's a ridiculous amount of wine.

Datalounge is notorious for attracting drunks.

Or driving people to drink?

1-2 bottles when you're 21 to 30, on a weekend warrior basis, is different from 2 bottles per night.

If I dated someone and I saw him drinking 2 bottles, I would walk away.

The key is that is was EVERY DAY supposedly. That's what he's admitting to - it was probably worse but his PR person settled on this amount.

After 30, wine is the drink of choice because somehow it has respectability above beer and spirits.

I could see it would be easier if you're drinking the REALLY GOOD wine - some of that shit is so lovely on the tongue.

But not every day. Twice a month? I could give that a pass.

How does he look this good after being a drunk and Depo looks like an old woman?

It’s hysterical . This thread was about Denzel. Now it’s every dler talking justifying making jokes about his drinking or others.

I guess Denzel used to wear a rug. The bald head is very aging . Somehow his blinding white veneers, a little crooked, seem to accentuate his age, as they look so incongruent with the rest of his face.

He was great in the movie Flight. Good on him for stopping drinking. But I did hate him for his bragging — Lenny makes all his meals ???? Denzel could’ve omitted that

He poured out his heart in an embarrassing way - talking about how everyone was looking at him wen Spacy win the Oscar .

He’s very angry at the Academy. But doesn’t he have two Oscars and multiple nominations?

What an asshole.

Is anyone watching The Diplomat? There’s a British actor who looks like a young Denzel Washington. I keep thinking it’s him.

It’s official; Denzel is a frau!

Can definitely tell he's cut out alcohol, the rapid weight loss is apparent. When you get to be 70 though, the skin does not bounce back.

Booze is fattening?

This explains a lot about Denzel Washington. Good for him if he’s not an alcoholic that is no longer suffering.

And speaking of suffering, Pauletta is one more of those spouses who chose to stay in the marriage, for whatever reasons she has.

But, somebody posted here many years ago who had worked a the set of one Washington’s movies that it was an open secret that Sanaa Latham and Washington were in the midst of a serious affair to the extent that he considered leaving Pauletta.

It wouldn’t surprise me to know that Latham may be a former heavy drinker, too when both were in the midst of their affair.

Oops -

Good for him if he’s an alcoholic who is no longer suffering.

Lathan

My legs are skinny cause I like to drink!

There is no diet booze, no.

Skinnier makes him look older

He was a drunken poseur. Never bothered to remember the names of his co-stars unless they were mega-famous like him. Alcohol will do that. Make you the most important person in the room no matter how big of an asshole you are. That's Denzel.

This jerk thinks he can handle King Lear? Ok, sure DW, whatever you say.

When I drank, I ate less. The alcohol was satisfying, in that way.

Since I quit drinking, I am about the same weight. My skin looks bettet, though.

Some people eat more after they quit drinking and also smoking....

Yeah, I ate more after quitting cigarettes.

When I drink, I tend to binge eat.

R96 - I binge eat crap food the following day. Don't eat hardly at all when I'm drinking.

But that craving for greasy and unhealthy food - on top of the calories from drinking - makes it a caloric investment that I can rarely afford.

I plumped up like a zeppelin when I stopped drinking. Only recently, thanks to surgery, IF and medication have I been able to lose. But I am sixty now and the weight doesn't just drop off as easily.

Denzel Washington thinks VERY HIGHLY of himself.

Every time he opens his mouth he tips his hand about his extreme self-regard.

He has many pearls of wisdom and wants to share.

Well, he's older and has gained lots of experience in many areas of life. Interesting to hear ...

I really liked him with Russell Crowe in American Gangster. Good movie.

That's a rough 69.... Just saying there's some crack in that black....

I love my life!

R71 This is something you made up in your head

BTW...R105-Miss Will Smith like the Men's penises deep inside him.

To Me-R106-the word should be" like Miss Eddie Murphy"

He's not aging well.

[quote]Does he open up about his 30-year cheating on Pauletta, his wife with all his female co-stars

Did he fuck Lindsay Wagner on the set of Ricochet (1991)?

Denzel is never going to own up to his martial affairs.

If you are drinking two bottles of wine every night you are drinking to get drunk. And you have to ask yourself, why do I want to be drunk all the time? What’s going on in your life that would cause you to want to be drunk every night? There’s no justifying it in any regard - it’s drinking to get drunk. Every day.

Obviously, r11. He quit a decade ago. What’s your point here?

Has he always had such an overbite? I understand his veneers/teeth look larger now in his thinner face, but he's got a big overbite happening now - was it always there and lost in the flesh of his face?

Yes, he always did have a slight overbite.

R108 He is fucking 70 and no plastic surgery.

I have never liked him. He is SOOO sanctimonious. In OP’s story, “man of God” appears in the first paragraph.

He seems like a nasty piece of work.

Like many nasty pieces of work, he has cloaked himself in religion.

well, heard his new movie is shit

R106 Is that why Eddie dated hundreds of women, had children with about 30 of them (that we know of) and married at least 20? Cause he's so gay?

Plus, you guys constantly say that gay men aren't into trannies. So which one is it?

I wish I had a 10, 000 wine cellar

He's a fag str8 man who likes trannies!!

DL, figuring out Miss Eddie Murphy is not rocket science, please keep up!

keeps getting married, why I do not know! Not str8, no such thing as Bi, loves men in really high heels.

He looks weird because at 70, his teeth should look like old ivory piano keys, not a white plastic keyboard.

Wine is not alcoholique!

R121 "He's a fag str8 man", "no such thing as Bi"...yeah, you are a special type of a moron.

most of you will be drinking more than 2 bottles a day this holiday season!!!

It's stressful