Anthony Hopkins Says He 'Could Have Killed Somebody' Until He Had This Realization

Sir Anthony Hopkins is opening up about his past.

The 87-year-old Silence of the Lambs star got candid in his new memoir We Did OK, Kid.

During a conversation with The Interview, he spoke about a moment in his life where he had a major realization.

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“I was drunk and driving my car here in California in a blackout, no clue where I was going,” he explained, “when I realized that I could have killed somebody — or myself, which I didn’t care about.”

“I came to my senses and said to an ex-agent of mine at this party in Beverly Hills, ‘I need help,’” he said.

“It was 11 o’clock precisely — I looked at my watch — and this is the spooky part: Some deep, powerful thought or voice spoke to me from inside and said: ‘It’s all over. Now you can start living. And it has all been for a purpose, so don’t forget one moment of it.’ ”

He said it was a “vocal, male, reasonable, like a radio voice.”

“The craving to drink was taken from me, or left. Now I don’t have any theories except divinity or that power that we all possess inside us that creates us from birth, life force, whatever it is. It’s a consciousness, I believe. That’s all I know,” he went on to explain. Watch above.

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