Robin Williams has checked into the Hazelden Addiction Treatment Center in Minnesota to work on maintaining his long-term sobriety. His representative emphasized in a statement today that Robin’s rehab visit is purely precautionary.
“After working back-to-back projects, Robin is simply taking the opportunity to fine-tune and focus on his continued commitment, of which he remains extremely proud,” the representative said.
Throughout his decades in the entertainment business, Robin Williams has made no secret of his addiction problems: He’s admitted to a serious cocaine problem in the 1970s and early 1980s, but got sober before his oldest son was born. He slipped two decades later by having a drink while filming in Alaska.
“For that first week you lie to yourself, and tell yourself you can stop, and then your body kicks back and says, no, stop later. And then it took about three years, and finally you do stop,” Robin told The Guardian in 2010, explaining it wasn’t until his family staged an intervention in 2006 that he agreed to go to rehab. He then recommitted himself to sobriety and has maintained it by attending regular AA meetings ever since.
Robin’s next movie, Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb, is due out later this year. His CBS comedy, The Crazy Ones, was canceled in May.
