Actor and director Til Schweiger sought help from a therapist after the allegations against him and several alcohol-related incidents. “I thought a lot. I talked a lot with friends. And I started therapy,” he told Stern magazine. According to his own statements, the trigger was an Instagram video that he posted while intoxicated in the spring. “When I saw myself there, in this state of absolute loss of control: it was unbearable. Then I thought: ‘That’s not you, Til. What kind of idiot are you? How can something like this happen to you?'”
In the spring, several employees who worked on the set of “Manta Manta – Second Part” accused Schweiger in a “Spiegel” article of, among other things, appearing on the set drunk and hitting an employee. Schweiger emphasized that he did not get drunk regularly. “No, I doused myself exactly once, and that was at night in my hotel,” he told Stern. He celebrated with old companions and later had a film break. The next morning he left for work still drunk. When the production manager tried to stop him from filming, he slapped him in the face. “It was a catastrophe for which I am still ashamed today and for which I alone am responsible.” He later apologized to the production manager, who forgave him.
When asked, Schweiger emphasized that he was not an alcoholic. “No. My doctor, Prof. Dr. Florian Holsboer, explained this to me: An alcoholic is a person whose everyday life is determined by the strong urge to consume alcohol. In addition, his body rebels when he stops drinking. ” That doesn’t apply to him. “We’re working on making sure I don’t lose control anymore. It’s been working great for six months, but I still have to be careful.”
