Tony, thank you for exposing yourself in this format, and being who you are [ beautiful soul ) Your powerful vibe is inspiring to me and I feel the same way about this wonderful fellowship.

@patricklawrence2207

4 жыл бұрын

Hello Tony Great share I'm 5 months sober uv helped me 2 day thanks a lot god bless ya 🙏

@rashidabdul-ghani4933

4 жыл бұрын

Does anyone know the date of this open talk?

@patricklawrence2207

4 жыл бұрын

@@juliuscaesar8163 I don't no much about this man iv just found out that he's an AA members and he's been sober for years

@aabarnes1

4 жыл бұрын

And breaching our traditions

@theincompleteskeptic8079

4 жыл бұрын

@@rashidabdul-ghani4933 I'm guessing 99 or 2000? He said he was 15 years sober, but maybe I was confused.

29 hours sober. First AA meeting today.

@krystynazapolska8541

2 ай бұрын

Breathe in breathe out. Don't drink. Repeat as necessary.

@OlGa51431

Ай бұрын

How is it going?

@krystynazapolska8541

Ай бұрын

24 years one day at a time

@doomguy584

Ай бұрын

It's all about your commitment if you believe you can you will make it

I met Tony Hopkins at the World Convention of San Diego in 1995. I was in a room of hundreds and felt alone. Then Tony approached and introduced himself. I felt at home once again. Saturday I celebrated twenty eight years sober.

@kimberlypatchett3631

4 жыл бұрын

Beautiful

@icanseeherkidneys4570

4 жыл бұрын

Congrats 29 profoundly gratefully why was able to make it when so many didn't ....just for today 😎

@vanmarko6654

4 жыл бұрын

@Rich B Sad,I'd say your one of them 13th Steppers in AA.You sound and look creepy. AA full of creepy fuckers like you 🤮🤮🤮

@TheSavannah2423

4 жыл бұрын

BEST WORLD CONVENTION EVEN THO ALL I HAVE BEEN TO WERE GREAT.

@jeremyhigdon3402

4 жыл бұрын

I have 42 days. Yay

"The loneliness of the alcoholic", that only a fellow alcoholic can understand. Thank you, Tony. Gregg M.

@dadafish1

4 жыл бұрын

Simp

@kristopherstegavik3741

3 жыл бұрын

@@dadafish1 maybe you should hit urban dictionary .... thats not what a simp is... have a good day

@easygoing7500

2 жыл бұрын

Bait and switch. Dishonorable. disfuntional evil cult

I'm 2 years clean and sober, thanks for your story

20 days clean off opiates. Listening to this stuff helps

I'm glad I got sober. Coming up on 6 months without a drink

@marcus3060

3 жыл бұрын

Keep it up

@drrjim

3 жыл бұрын

Good job David. 2 suggestions that have worked well for me. Stay connected, via zoom meetings (for now), phone calls and the book, daily. I have found the #1 reason for people going out is drifting away from the herd. They stopped going to meetings. I've heard it many times from those who come back with arrows in their ass. Your mind will start telling you it's ok to drink. And secondly, there is nothing going on in your life that a drink will fix. Most likely it will make it worse. Good luck my brother..

@eltinygarcia7358

3 жыл бұрын

Good for you keep it up!!!!

Being an academy award winner and in the limelight I wouldn’t have thought someone would allow this to be on KZread but then I thought how many people he could help to achieve sobriety. What a great AA message !! My last drink was Christmas of 2010 and am so grateful that I am a member. Thanks Tony, I hope someday I meet you at a meeting.

It never fails to amaze me how much our stories are the same. In the gutter or in silk sheets. Thank you for sharing

@anthonyhopkins5471

3 жыл бұрын

I want to Specially appreciate you for being a big fan. I want you to send me a direct message via hangouts using my personal email or you can as well add me up on WhatsApp through my mobile number that will be indicated below. Also endeavor to add your name to the text so I can know you are the one texting because I don’t reply unnecessary messages. Hangouts mail: anthonyhopkinsconneted@gmail.com WhatsApp number:+13252198810

When I first got sober at 29, it was nothing to work a full day, then walk to a meeting, every day . I'm 70 now, almost blind and lame from an auto/pedestrain accident so I don't get around like I used to. BUT.... how wonderful is it that I can go to a speakers meeting every day, anytime I want by going to KZread. Thank you KZread and all the generous posters out there that pulled my bacon out of the fire many many times. I'm very greatful.

@billytheweasel

4 жыл бұрын

"BUT..." lol, usually everything after 'but' is BS. BUT... your attitude brightened my day in this quarantine. I feel for the newcomers now during the quarantine. I hope they find YT like we have. I should be in my regular Saturday meeting right now BUT... I needed to meet you. (and I learned Tony still needs a tune up too)

@revdupartist9386

4 жыл бұрын

There are TONS of meetings now on Zoom with the Covid lock down. It's not the same as going to meetings and seeing peeps in person, but it's way better than no meeting. Check with the NY about info.

Stuck inside thanks to the coronavirus - but this proved to be a great substitute for the meeting I needed today!

@philnelson7353

4 жыл бұрын

Craig Nelson greetings from Craig Philip Nelson.

@markg.4246

4 жыл бұрын

Zoom. No excuses. I say that for you AND me! 🙂

@aprilbrocious2492

4 жыл бұрын

Plenty of great meetings on Skype too. Search first164yp. They meet Monday through Friday 8pm CET

@pbar41

3 жыл бұрын

aamiamidade.org/online-local-group-meetings Come join us for some Zoom meetings in Miami...You are not alone.

@easygoing7500

2 жыл бұрын

@@pbar41 Be very careful of the dishonorable dysfunctional. wannabe a 1930s bar fly cult

I have a friend with 42 years sober who got sober in the Pacific group his sponsor is still alive and also an actor he has great stories and memories of the Pacific group my son lives in LA so last year I made it to a meeting there very welcoming people

It's been way too long since I have been at a meeting. After 27 years of sobriety, I find that I forget how important these meetings are. I have always been a fan of Mr. Hopkins, and I am so grateful that he spoke at that this meeting. We know that, it doesn't matter if you are a celebrity, the average person, or the person trying to make it. Thank you sir.

✊🏽 35 days!

@randallromero625

4 жыл бұрын

Eddie Ca. That’s great man! A miracle indeed. Keep doing what you’re doing.

@cat793c2008

4 жыл бұрын

Keep it up. I’ll be at 60 day’s on Nov 11

@blacksheepk3227

4 жыл бұрын

Eddie Ca. How about now?

@rosenpcj

4 жыл бұрын

Eddie Ca. Brilliant. Bay Area CA👍

@medotaku9360

3 жыл бұрын

1 year and 35 days?

I love listening to this when I cant find a meeting. We are blessed that us aa people get to hear Anthony's story

So so cool!!! Hi to everyone from Russians in recovery 🥰❤️🇷🇺

@BetaBuxDelux

3 жыл бұрын

Hi from San Jose, California!

@olyan542

3 жыл бұрын

Hi !!

Thanks Tony im 131 days sober Your words captured my ear ...Thank you Stay safe nice kitten

Mr. Hopkins not only are you an amazing actor. You are an amazing man. You are such an inspiration to me and for my recovery. Thank you for your message it was outstanding! Sincerely, Lynn M. from Pennsylvania

His humility is inspiring in itself! He's one of the biggest film stars in the world and he opens himself up to strangers. It's easy to imagine how many people in HIS position with EXACTLY his problem would never dream of standing in front of their "lessers" and saying "I'm not a Hollywood star, I'm an EFFing drunk just like all of you!" That takes courage a lot of people don't have.

What a wonderful gift to have this amazing human as my friend.

Actor Anthony Hopkins has such a warm melodious, captivating, musical, and distinctive voice. I can recognize it immediately & love to hear him speak.

Was wound up over something, loosing my head. Missed my meeting at work stewing and something just told me to listening to a recorded meeting and this was the first one that came. For a half hour I got out of my head and changed my outlook on the day. Cant say why I was even bothered before. 1 year, 7 months, 29 days sober. Thank you for your share Tony.

@Deadsea_1993

3 жыл бұрын

Congratulations. We can be sober for just today. I hope to be a newcomer forever in this mindset. It is a reminder that I need to practice AA for today

Thank you. 28 years and counting and I needed this today. It truly is a one day at a time program.

My dearest Mr. Hopkins, I have been your fan all my life. This is my first time listening to an AA speech. I'm yet to attend a meeting. You're better than I could have imagined, really entertaining and inspiring.

This came up on my phone getting over the flu and it's like I'm at a meeting!!!!I love him as an actor and even more now.Hes one if us!!Thank 4posting!Just turned16!!!6-6-03!!!

@normfarrell7804

4 жыл бұрын

especially useful to have an online meeting during Spring-Lockdown 2020

WOW! I never knew till today he was on of us, so happy i found this!!!

@whitechipAA

4 жыл бұрын

Check out the Famous Speakers playlist on White Chip page

@tylerdickerson9447

4 жыл бұрын

White Chip all the videos are private?

@Gitsie007

3 жыл бұрын

It is amazing, what he has talked about in his past is so similar to so many of us.

Thank God I did`nt wake-up with a hangover today.

@davidlowe9021

3 жыл бұрын

Me too

Thank you Mr. Hopkins, I truly enjoyed listening to you Sir.

Sober for a year and a half. Great to hear the story of Sir Anthony Hopkins. What a wonderful actor and an even more wonderful human.

Wonderful listening to Anthony H. Her 3xplains alcoholism soooo well. I really get it soberity is the only way

I was 17 months sober then relapsed I'm now 2 weeks sober thanks for your story

The longest i have done is 3yrs, that was after rehab(the only time i did go). I have relapsed several times since then. It's so uplifting reading through the comments and finding guys 20+ yrs sober. Am just 3days in currently. I will greatly treasure & appreciate any positive advice/suggestion. Thanks

@tomallen6117

4 жыл бұрын

Get loads of meetings Lionel. That's the only way I know.

@KevinSmith-tq3gm

4 жыл бұрын

Lots of fellowship with other alcoholics, as in AA.

@timeagan893

4 жыл бұрын

Lionel GO BACK TO MEETINGS and Get into the steps this time... Lionel, you KNOW this program works...Alot of us had to play around with it for a time.... BUT our Alcoholism DID NOT GO AWAY........So eventually it (booze itself)drove us back..And when we finally worked the program as it is SUGGESTED.....it finally worked for us too...

Thank you so much Mr. Hopkins, you broke your anonymity and that is yours to do. It has helped a lot of people. When I came in around 1983 Betty Ford and Joan Kennedy showed me the way up in Dallas, Texas. If those two women could admit they had a drinking problem then maybe I could too. Anonymity is the foundation of our program, however, it is a useful tool to use as well. You are such a great guy as well as in your profession.

@markg.4246

4 жыл бұрын

He didn’t break his anonymity, it was an AA meeting. The traditions were written for a good reason.

@anthonyhopkins5471

3 жыл бұрын

I want to Specially appreciate you for being a big fan. I want you to send me a direct message via hangouts using my personal email or you can as well add me up on WhatsApp through my mobile number that will be indicated below. Also endeavor to add your name to the text so I can know you are the one texting because I don’t reply unnecessary messages. Hangouts mail: anthonyhopkinsconneted@gmail.com WhatsApp number:+13252198810

I'm struggling with alcohol.thank you anthony

@pattihawks8514

4 жыл бұрын

Dule Perez Prayers for courage to win, one day at a time! ♥️🙏✌️

@luisrom1781

4 жыл бұрын

Don't live before the miracle happens

@Allan-wq3tw

4 жыл бұрын

I suggest going to a meeting , grabbing a sponser , anybody for starters , anybody that has a working knowledge of the steps. And getting started 😊

@theequatableskeptic8148

4 жыл бұрын

Hey! We’ve been there brother. I know I have, find a meeting, find someone that you feel has something you want (not money) and ask them to help you.

@1245milam

4 жыл бұрын

Go to meeting and don't` drink between meetings, read the book, find a sponcer and help some one.

I hope I can get sober again one day.

@tysp7481

4 жыл бұрын

You can.

@kevinmurnane

4 жыл бұрын

My heart and love go with you.

@Don_V.

4 жыл бұрын

Justin Chaney You can do it my friend. Do service, find a sponsor and do the steps. It works..

@47Grits

4 жыл бұрын

Go to an AA meeting and talk to another Alcoholic.

@randallromero625

4 жыл бұрын

We will be here with our doors open and a warm embrace, whenever you’re ready to come back. We are waiting for you.

Almost 3 years going strong! 12 steps

@easygoing7500

2 жыл бұрын

Red flags get out of the dishonorable dysfunctional wannabe 1930s bar fly cult

@pbar41

2 жыл бұрын

@@easygoing7500 lol. Poor sap. Generally, a cult has a leader. All servants in this “cult”. If I hand to pick one, this would be it. Good luck on your lonely journey.

Wonderful share. With thanks Tony H!

I needed a meeting and found this. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

@juliaknowlton1263

4 жыл бұрын

same here :-)

@sgurule1437

3 жыл бұрын

Same

Go Anthony Hopkins! I'm a fan of Bill W got almost 8 years on the 11th! ✌❤🤗

@Discovering_Nicole1

4 жыл бұрын

Whoot whoot!!!

@niall441

4 жыл бұрын

So what!! how sane are you? my 5yr old baby! LOL!!

@tomcatyyz

4 жыл бұрын

Congrats, Nikki!

@pattihawks8514

4 жыл бұрын

Nikki Rev ASMR Plus 👏👏👏🙏♥️

@Dave-bq6gy

4 жыл бұрын

👍👍👍

I love being clean and sober

Oh, God Tony. Hilarious and heart breaking. I’ve never heard anyone describe their school days like you did. It’s exactly how I felt. Thank you. 🍃🌷🍃

Just happened upon this randomly. There was alcoholism in my family, and I married one (and divorced, twice, then he passed away of heart issues a few years ago. He did stop the drinking, thanks be to God). My weakness was bad relationships, not alcohol. Whatever our problems, God has an answer, when we finally listen! This is a wonderful speech and I applaud all who are working the steps, one day at a time! God bless you!

@whitechipAA

4 жыл бұрын

Dont forget to subscribe!

@pattihawks8514

4 жыл бұрын

White Chip Thanks for reminder! ✌️

Your share was exactly what I needed today...thank you soooo much..in a time of no face to face meetings, you have been my meeting !

That was a very beautiful telling of your life! I’m new to AA, but I have found the same happiness and a normal life! Good and bad days, like all people, and to me that is glorious!

I want to say thank you Tony, I'm 39 and I feel exactly as you do. I hope the future gets brighter as yesterday was my first day sober.

What an amazing share!!! Thank you so much Tony for opening up your heart to us. I’ve always admired you for your incredible acting skills, now I have an even more admiration for you. I’m proud to be clean and sober 3 months and 17 days.

You just made this New Yorkers day. God bless you. I thought I was from another planet as well growing up.

Thank you Tony, I’m 101 days soba now, and I to feel like I’ve come home. Oh I fort it with everything I had, till it I thought I was dying. Your words spoke to me and reminded me I am home, thanks again 👍

What a great meeting! Thank you for this post.🎀🙏

Thank you for sharing. Alcoholism/addiction doesn't discriminate. Doesn't care if you have a deep-water dock with a yacht and servants or you're living in a shed with a leaky roof. It affects all colours, education levels, social status, IQ, or any other metric. It is the great equalizer and is a spirtual sickness. Very good to hear you.

90 days sober thank you for sharing tony

Thank you, Tony. I drank for 15 years also having gone to a party in 1970 and didn't get home until '85. One day at a time since 3/19/85 and a very happy customer.XXXIV

This is absolutely awesome and a special treat indeed! I just celebrated 8 years thank you so much AA and Anthony!! Definitely joining on Facebook !wow!! 👏❤️👏👏❤️

@nicksantoro868

4 жыл бұрын

Been trying hard to quit. Self medication got the better of me before proper treatment took hold. Now I take meds and drink every night...sigh

Thank you Tony for sharing your experience, strength & hope. The program does work if you work it ONE DAY AT A TIME ❤️

Thank You Sir Anthony Hopkins for your inspiration.

I appreciate your service❤️

Thankyou Anthony, amazing 8 years sober. Thankyou AA members. 🤗 Grace of god.

What a great story. Speaker meetings have always been my favorite

Tony, this has changed my life. Thank you

The Pacific group love love this. Thanks Tony

Found AA things on KZread as we trudge our roads to happy destiny amid COVID happenings globally. I am so grateful to be a sober 18 Year member. A Brit living in CA since 1981 and so glad I discovered AA on KZread. A meeting a day keeps the alcohol away!

Thank you, Tony. You're great on every level.

Thank you for your service Tony.

Thank you Tony!! You are a true inspiration!!!!

9 22 90 Never knew if I was an alcoholic or an addict. It’s all the same. I chose AA as my program of choice! I m so alive and so happy to have 28 Years of one day at a time consistent sobriety! ( still hit n those meetings and working a program )

@niall441

4 жыл бұрын

What are you working ? a drunk story or keep it simple?

Currently in self quarantine with everything going on and having the flu myself (common cold). All tv and no meetings makes Lauren a squirrelly girl 🤪 You’ve helped keep me sober another day!

@patmcdonagh748

4 жыл бұрын

Hopefully ur doing well .sending message from ireland .

@prestonlovinggood5560

4 жыл бұрын

thanks for sharing! been hard not being able to go to meetings!

@puma421

4 жыл бұрын

yup...its a trip

@LaurenRamz

4 жыл бұрын

Preston Lovinggood We’ll get through this together. Hope you’ve been able to check out some zoom meetings! They are being held literally every hour of the day!!

@prestonlovinggood5560

4 жыл бұрын

Lauren Ramirez for whatever reason i keep putting it off! imma do it

This is such a fantastic speech.

Thank you for sharing! Nice to be able to catch up on speakers that I have always wanted to hear :)

This was outstanding. I needed to hear this.

Thanks for your pitch Mr Hopkins!! I love the broad range of friends with bill.

Thank you for such a beautiful share. I have 4 years.

EXCELLENT SHARE, I NEEDED THIS

Grateful for these KZread speaker meetings and zoom !

Thank you Anthony H.

Celebrating 11 years on July 10. Thank you for your service. I'm part Scottish.

You are so great this reminds me of all of my alcoholic days that I have put my family through and I feel guilty about but I have to remind myself not to feel guilty but to know I have learned from it and we can get a good laugh every once in a while my husband and I adore you such a wonderful human being with a natural soul to share with the world thank you

This is the only voice that I need to hear today. As the years go on the more I feel pain. As the sobriety goes on the more I want to drink. However I like this better being alive and grateful despite my different brain Anthony Hopkins I love you

God love him. Even though he is Anthony Hopkins, brilliant, successful actor, his story is so similar to so many of us. It is amazing. the feeling like an 'alien' in childhood is another common thing. I felt the same way also. To this day I struggle with feeling different. This disease does not discriminate--it hits all walks of life.

Thank you Tony a fellow friend of Bill’s

Thanks for sharing this video. It has confirmed my willingness today to stay on the path of recovery. If someone of Tonys status, who can have anything he wants in life needs AA, then a commoner such as I surely needs it too 🙏🏻

PS thank you for your service , thank you for making these tapes available . Helping to carry the message that There is a Solution🙂

Wow, thank you for sharing this Tony. I know this was a long time ago but it is as relevant today as it was then.

Almost 14 years thank u for video

Walked into the rooms oct. 16th 2004......and I keep coming back. These open talks are great if you can get to a meeting. Prayers to those who still suffer.

Thank u for sharing your experience strength and hope! I identify!,

Wow never knew. I am 4 months clean today. I'm still doing my IOP group meetings with steps to recovery due to this virus and the zoom meetings are hard for me still. Thank you for speaking and sharing. I was like a little kid telling my boyfriend that you are an alcoholic. I was like guess who is an alcoholic. ..just take a guess, come on guess. Of course he looked at me like I had 3 heads. I'm having hard time dealing with everything right now, the virus is in my mom's nursing home, my handicapped dad is at his house, alone, the VA shut down right after this pandemic. Recovery is not all unicorns and rainbows but I know I must stay sober one day at a time and whatever comes my way, good, bad, ugly as long as I'm sober I will get through it, I'm not ALONE!!! THANK YOU!!!

@michaelfoxbrass

4 жыл бұрын

God bless you, Jen. One day at a time we’ll all get through this. Keep it simple - surrender all fears, anger, anxieties and doubt to your HP. The steps work when we work them. Keep coming back and stay connected to your fellowship.

@jennianelli3016

4 жыл бұрын

@@michaelfoxbrass Thank you Michael! ! God bless! !!

Thank God for the program, day at a time

Tony, thanks for sharing your story. Very inspiring. I have 30 days sober and I have come home.

absolutely awesome blessed to live a day at a time a remarkable story and spread the message amen..

I too, have never accepted Earth as my home planet! Thanks for your share. 7-23-86 to present and very grateful.

I listened to this lead when was not 2 years sober and I was. Michigan working. What a amazing man. God Bless you 🙏❤️. Keep the faith. I'm traveling Internationally To Thialand. Going to room to listen again. Thanks for your experience, strength, hope!!!

Brad k. And l am an addict and alcoholic.. this was a very enjoyable meeting to listen to.. just shows that this disease doesn't distinguish between rich or poor..

Tony I so needed a good laugh today.

6 years sober and I have volunteered at the recovery center located in Dr Bob's childhood home in St Johnsbury Vermont and I am grateful for recovery.

A famous person like Tony is a great inspiration to us alcoholics.

Thank you, I have not laughed so hard in a while...Thank you for your sharing your story.

What a wonderful person

Beautiful testimony. Thank you Tony for helping me stay sober today!! ❤️❤️❤️

I had no idea and thanks for sharing ...6yrs and 3 months

Thank you!