Tom Holland says three and a half years of sobriety feels like a "brand-new identity".
The 29-year-old actor quit drinking in 2022 after struggling with Dry January, has opened up on being sober for well over three years.
He told Esquire magazine: "It feels amazing. A little bit like a brand-new identity almost."
The Spider-Man star has since launched his own non-alcoholic beer brand Bero, and he insisted the venture is "going really well".
He said: "I’m really proud of it. Every day we’re making big steps in the right direction, and we’re growing every day—thinking of new ways to innovate and coming up with new ideas for products.
“We have some exciting stuff that we’re developing for the winter of this year and the summer of next year, which I’m really excited about.
"It’s an ever-changing, ever-growing process.”
Earlier this year, Tom spoke to Men's Health about his sobriety as he celebrated the three year milestone.
He recalled: "[My lawyer] gave me a really poignant piece of advice that helped me get through everything, which was:
"'You’ll never wake up the morning after a night out and wish you had a drink.'
"That piece of advice really rang true to me, because my problem was that I would have one drink and be fine, and then I would just go too far.”
He initially took a one-month break from booze in January 2022, which was a wakeup call as he realised how tough he found it.
Tom then tried a second and third month, and then half a year.
He said: "I’m quite strong-willed. When I decide to do something, I’m really gonna do it.
“I leaned on close ones a lot: family, friends, old colleagues, new colleagues, people that reached out that I didn’t know who also were sober.”
In October last year, Tom explained how he had learned to avoid "the LA parties" mixing with "celebrities that I don't know".
He told the Rich Roll podcast: "I used to go to these parties, and be like, 'I can't speak to someone until I'm drunk'.
“I've grown up a little bit, I know that It isn't my place to be...
“When I realized that alcohol wasn't masking my insecurity or bringing out my best self — it was actually doing the opposite — [I] started to feel this freedom of like, ‘ I can just be myself.’ “
