Josh Brolin shares how his dying grandmother inspired him to stop drinking after 9 stints in jail

> “I woke up on the sidewalk,” Brolin began. “I didn’t know where my car was, and it wasn’t that that was rare. That was just, you know, the 400th time that it happened. It was so normal when I woke up.”

> While that disorientation was par for the course, the Dune: Part Two actor explained that what made the night notable was his grandmother’s declining health. “My grandmother was on her deathbed,” he said. “I was supposed to have picked up my brother and taken them, because I was the one in the family that put everything together and structured everything and controlled everything.”

> “My grandmother, who was 99 at the time, picked her head up and looked at me and smiled, and that was it,” Brolin recalled. “I was done. I said, “If this woman could get through 99 years on life’s terms, how dare me?’”