Kristin Davis:

This is going to sound strange, but I really didn't think I would pass 30.

I don't know why or whatever, I just didn't.

That's a very weird thing to say, I'm sorry. I don't know.

Maybe it's because I was drinking so much as a youth.

I drank a lot when I was a teenager and I don't drink any more, because that's when I thought, you know, I'm gonna end up a car wreck. I just had a fatalistic view of the whole situation at that point.

It's very hard to say a simple answer as to why.

Alcoholism is a genetically predisposed disease and it does run in my family.

I also think I felt like a misfit. I was in the South, everybody was blonde. I just didn't feel like I fitted in. It was sort of my way of fitting.

I don't think the drinking was really a rebellious thing, because I was still a straight-A student.

What made me stop?

[Davis was 22 years old when she became teetotal.]

I realised it was not going to end well. I got into the acting programme, it was very challenging, I was hungover and I wasn't doing so well in my classes.

I thought, 'Do you know what? It's going to be one or the other. I can't really have both.'

Nowadays I would say chocolate and coffee has taken over.

Lattes. It's funny because I find myself thinking, 'I've got to have a latte.' I have a limit of two.

Source: Marie Claire [UK]

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