{"id":1240,"date":"2026-02-02T15:47:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T15:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/?p=1240"},"modified":"2026-02-02T15:47:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T15:47:49","slug":"josh-brolins-childhood-actor-tells-all-in-autobiography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/?p=1240","title":{"rendered":"Josh Brolin\u2019s childhood \u2013 actor tells all in autobiography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"87\" data-end=\"267\">Celebrities often seem to have it all, but behind the glamor, struggles remain. Josh Brolin\u2019s new memoir, <em data-start=\"193\" data-end=\"215\">From Under the Truck<\/em>, reveals his difficult past and path to sobriety.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"269\" data-end=\"554\">Brolin shares frightening childhood memories, including his mother Jane\u2019s dangerous \u201cSic \u2019em\u201d trick, where she would send wild animals after him and his brother. Despite her harshness, he loved her deeply. She died in a car accident at 55, an age Brolin once thought \u201cdecent\u201d to die.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"556\" data-end=\"797\">Brolin battled addiction for years, experimenting with drugs at a young age and struggling with alcohol well into adulthood. His 99-year-old grandmother\u2019s deathbed moment in 2013 became the turning point; he\u2019s been sober for over a decade.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"799\" data-end=\"947\">He also reflects on stepmother Barbra Streisand\u2019s \u201ctough love\u201d and now embraces 56 with gratitude, enjoying the peace and clarity sobriety brings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Celebrities often seem to have it all, but behind the glamor, struggles remain. Josh Brolin\u2019s new memoir, From Under the Truck, reveals his difficult past <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/?p=1240\" title=\"Josh Brolin\u2019s childhood \u2013 actor tells all in autobiography\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1242,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions\/1242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}