The Bear star Matty Matheson marks 11 years of sobriety after heart attack at age 29

The Bear star and YouTube food creator Matty Matheson is celebrating an important milestone.

The actor is marking 11 years of sobriety after experiencing a heart attack at age 29.

The now-42-year-old posted a photo from the hospital visit that followed his heart attack on Instagram with the caption, “11 YEARS SINCE I FOUND A NEW WAY TO LIVE. I LOVE MY LIFE I LOVE MY FAMILY I LOVE MY FRIENDS!

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“THERES A WORLD WHERE YOU DONT NEED DRUGS OR ALCOHOL! THERES ROOMS WHERE PEOPLE WILL LOVE YOU UNTIL YOU LOVE YOURSELF AGAIN! I LOVE YOU!”

In the photo he is seen looking into the camera as he eats a hospital meal with his hand in a half thumbs up.

In a recent interview with The Guardian, he said the incident was caused by alcohol and cocaine abuse.

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“All the industry clichés are real. Lots of drinking and doing drugs. Live like that for 10 years? You get kinda burnt.”

He described his lifestyle back then, sharing that he would be drinking and doing drug until the morning and have two to three hours of sleep before going to work.

“It was after long years of going at it. I went to bed Saturday night, and woke up Sunday thinking I was having one. I went to the hospital: I’d had a heart attack in my sleep,” he said of the 2011 incident.

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Despite the health scare, it didn’t completely stop the star from going back to his former lifestyle. It took his friends cutting him off from their bars, his drug dealers cutting him off, and his loved ones holding an intervention in November 2013 for him to commit to sobriety.

He shared that afterwards he began making videos for Vice‘s food YouTube page Munchies, which helped him to pay back his friends and drug dealers, as well as helping him facilitate his move into the online food world, resulting in his celebrity chef status.

This helped him become a consultant for the Emmy-winning series, which again resulted in him being offered the role of Neil Fak on the show – curiously as one of the non-chef characters on the show, as per his wishes.

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