Keith Powers is continuous to test the times off his calendar. After celebrating that he had gone greater than six months with out alcohol in July, the actor took to his Instagram Tales on Wednesday (Oct. 29) to disclose he’s faithfully sticking to his objectives.
“Right this moment is my three hundredth day of no alcohol!” he posted with a black and white photograph of him having fun with nature. “65 days left to succeed in my unique purpose. After that, I’ll proceed to not drink. Executed with the alc without end.”
The will to dwell a sober life-style got here 5 years after Powers, 33, revealed he handled anxiousness and used alcohol as a coping mechanism, significantly at trade events the place he felt like all eyes have been on him as quickly as he entered the get together.
“I’m actually simply overthinking the whole lot, I’m like, ‘Man, how do I look?’ After which I begin sweating and my armpits would begin sweating and I’m simply shedding it,” he informed Dave Bellevue in 2020. “I observed after I would take a shot or one thing, or I’d drink, and I’d be unfastened. I’m in a position to be myself. However as I’m doing that and afterwards I’m pondering to myself like … that isn’t a method to cope. That’s not the best way to manage in any respect.”
He added, “Realizing that made me scared. I didn’t discover I used to be consuming earlier than sure trade events to get unfastened – I didn’t actually join the truth that it was my anxiousness that was making me really feel like, ‘OK, I must take a drink earlier than going to this get together. As soon as I spotted that, I felt low.”
Powers admitted he wanted to seek out more healthy measures to take care of his anxiousness and shared a video to attempt to help different individuals who could also be having the identical struggles he was having.
The journey with sobriety has created some pleasure in his private life, too. Powers and longtime beau Ryan Future introduced they have been engaged earlier this month. The information got here seven months after the pair rekindled their relationship after splitting in 2022.
After sharing the joint Instagram publish, Future and Powers’ feedback have been flooded with movie star A-list well-wishers, together with Issa Rae, Yvonne Oriji, Kehlani, Janelle Monáe, Future’s “grown-ish” co-star Chloe Bailey, and extra.
