Devon Sawa celebrates '12 years sober, officially' and tells people that 'it’s worth it' to clean up
Devon Sawa is celebrating a decade of sobriety.
The veteran actor, 40, tweeted Sunday, '12 years sober, officially' as of December 23.
'This is one tweet in which I declare I’m fishing for compliments,' the actor wrote. 'I earned every 4,380 days and it wasn’t easy. To anyone else on this journey just starting out, it’s worth it.'
Milestone: Devon Sawa, 40, is celebrating a decade of sobriety as he tweeted Sunday, '12 years sober, officially.' He was snapped last year in LA
'My life today has ups and downs, but overall, I’m a lucky man.'
Sawa, who's been seen on shows such as Somewhere Between, Nikita and The Odyssey, and in movies like Final Destination and Casper, told US last year that he left show business about 15 years ago for a five-year stretch, and was uncertain he'd return.
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'Most of the time, [I] didn't know whether I was going to come back or not.'
Sawa,who has two kids with wife Dawni -son Hudson, four, and daughter Scarlett, two - opened up about the professional turmoil that led to the interruption in his career, as he 'was just burnt out.'
'I had done a series of four or five indie movies that I wasn't necessarily proud of,' he said. 'Some were horror movies. After Final Destination everybody wanted me to do horror movies and some weren't as good as others.'
Opening up: The veteran actor took to Twitter to reveal the personal feat
Out and about: Sawa was snapped with wife Dawni this past March in LA
The actor said he'd been 'brought back into the business by accident' via a mix-up that inadvertently jump-started his passion for performing.
'Somebody at my agency didn't get the memo that I quit and sent me an audition and I put myself on tape and that was it. I didn't get it. It was for the Max Payne movie with Mark Wahlberg,' Sawa told the magazine. 'But I did really well and the casting director wanted to meet me and I did. I thought, "You know what, this is what I love. This is what I really want to do."
'So I don't know why I stepped away in the first place.'
