Former Nick star Josh Peck calls sobriety “the cornerstone of my life”

Josh Peck says the sobriety was “wonderful” and “the foundation that really anchored me”.

The 35-year-old star “Drake & Josh” developed a drug and alcohol problem after losing 127 pounds and began rehab in 2008.

“I am fortunate enough to recover almost 14 years ago with the 12 steps program, and it’s something I do regularly to this day,” Page Six said in a recent interview. “It gives me a lot of structure in my life. It is really the basis of my life and all these wonderful things have been built from there. “

The Manhattan-born actor who wrote about his fight against drugs and alcohol in Happy People Are Annoying explained that sobriety “also brought me to the level of spirituality and how to embrace stoicism and ancient truths. It gave me a foundation that really anchored me.

Peck jokingly added that his mother – who raised him herself – and his wife Paige O’Brien “are making sure I don’t go outside the box.”

The Nickelodeon graduate can now be seen as a rabbi helping the faithful prepare for his bar mitzvah in the Netflix movie. “13: Musical“And says he is” incredibly proud to be a Jew. I think it’s something that has become more important to me with age. “

One of the reasons Peck wanted to star in the film was to work with director Tamra Davis, who directed the documentary Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child about an artist who died from a heroin overdose in 1988.

“Jean-Michel Basquait is my personal hero,” he explained, “so selfishly that I just knew I was going to torture her on set by asking her stories about Basquait.”

It’s also a busy time in Peck’s personal life.

He and O’Brien are expecting a second child together and are already the parents of a 3-year-old son, Max. Peck confesses that before Max was born, he was afraid of becoming a father because he never met his own.

“Having a father in so many ways would hopefully give me a structure or textbook on being a dad,” he said, “but luckily I had enough apostles in my life, my father-in-law whom I really look to, and my brother from Big Brother. Jewish Foundation, Dana, who has been in my life since I was 8. they were so good with their children. “