SUCCESSFUL, SOBER AND SUPPORTED
Apr 01, 2022
4 minutes
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E’S the badass of the silver screen who’s delivered some of cinema’s most iconic and profane one-liners. There are awards on his mantelpiece, a $250 million (R3,6 billion) fortune to his name and more movie credits than he can count. And he’s showing no sign of slowing down at the age of 73.
But Samuel L Jackson believes if it wasn’t for his wife, LaTanya Richardson, he’d have been in the grave years ago. Years of alcohol and drug abuse saw him spiral out of control as a young man and brought him to the brink of death.
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