Anna Faris said on Thursday that she stopped drinking and linked the change to avoiding self-sabotage. She made the disclosure while discussing how her mindset shifted in the last year, and she said sobriety was one of the gifts of that change.
Faris told the Dear Chelsea podcast that she had only recently stopped feeling ungracious about her career as a comedic actress. She said people who recognized her would smile while thinking about something “f–king stupid” she had done onscreen, and Chelsea Handler asked whether that had to do with her no longer drinking.
Dear Chelsea and Anna Faris
“Do you think that has to do with not drinking?” Handler asked. “Because I know you stopped drinking. Maybe that lit that a little bit.” Faris answered, “Turns out there’s a correlation between drinking and depression for me for sure. I had to take a step back to not self-sabotage.”
That admission gives the clearest public explanation yet for a change Faris had not discussed in past interviews. She did not say exactly when she began abstaining from alcohol, so the disclosure lands as a present-tense status update rather than a timeline milestone.
Mom and Michael Barrett
Faris’s sobriety comment carries extra weight because she played a newly sober single mother on Mom from 2013 to 2020, leaving the CBS series one season before its end. She said in June on Happy Sad Confused that she exited over the show’s intensity and that she started to lose her focus during that period.
She also introduced a complication that keeps this from being a simple recovery story. Faris said hormone patches “made a huge difference” in her mental health, so she framed her improvement as a combination of sobriety and another change rather than one fix doing all the work.
Jack and Jesus Christ
Faris has used recent interviews to talk more openly about how she handles pressure at home and in work. She said she needed to understand how she wanted to be loved and how she received love, and she described her marriage to Michael Barrett as “third time is a charm.”
She also said her 13-year-old son Jack is “solid as a tugboat emotionally” and that he is religious, has asked her to accept Jesus Christ, and has challenged her with questions about pro-life views and a mega pastor who is “kind of a grifter.” For Faris, the practical takeaway is simple: the drinking disclosure is the headline, but the larger story is that she is describing a version of stability built on fewer self-destructive habits and more deliberate choices.
