Lars von Trier has revealed that he is undergoing treatment for drugs and alcohol addiction. The famously prickly Danish director behind such films as Dogville, Melancholia and Nymphomaniac revealed that he is now clean and attending AA meetings in an interview he gave Danish newspaper Politiken, cited by the Guardian on Friday. In a frank admission, von Trier, 58, said he had to drink a bottle of vodka daily to help him enter a "parallel world" he felt he needed to be in to be creative, and that almost all of his films were written under the influence. The director worried that now,
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- 11/29/2014
- by Abid Rahman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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