Chet Hanks is appreciating his sobriety journey and sharing his best sober living advice for others.
“Everything. Everything,” Hanks, 34, exclusively told Us Weekly when asked what being sober means to him. Us caught up with the Running Point star on Friday, March 21, at the Clarins ICONS event at The Academy Museum in Los Angeles.
“If I wasn’t sober, none of these opportunities would even be possible,” he continued, before sharing his best advice for others who are thinking of getting sober themselves.
“My advice is if you think you might have a problem, then you do have a problem,” Hanks, who celebrated three years of sobriety in 2024, told Us. “Because if you’re thinking about it, the chances are that you can make a change and you just need to stop thinking and just do it.
He continued, “Don’t look back. That’s the best advice I can give you.”
The actor and son of Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson went on to explain that a big part of living a sober lifestyle is the decision to “stop hanging around with the people” you used to drink or use around.
“You got to cut off a whole group of friends,” he explained. “And it doesn’t got to be out of — it can be out of love. You just got to tell them, ‘Hey, I love you, but I can’t hang out with you.’ And just keep it a buck like that.”
In addition to sober living, Hanks is enjoying life as a girl dad — the actor welcomed daughter Michaiah in 2016 with his former partner, Tiffany Miles.
“I think it’s a little easier,” Hanks — who has credited his daughter and his parents for helping him get sober — told Us of being a girl dad. “I don’t know — all I know is having a daughter. I don’t know what it’s like to have a son. But I feel like with a son, it’s, like, you want to teach him how to be a man. Whereas with a girl, you just got to be super sweet. And it’s really easy.”
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When asked how he is preparing for his daughter to enter double-digits, Hanks simply told Us: “Just taking it one day at a time.”
Hanks — who plays professional basketball star Travis Bugg in the hit Netflix show Running Point — is also celebrating the series’ recent renewal.
“Oh man, I’m really happy about it,obviously,” he told Us of the news. “I’m excited to get back to work.”
And while the actor can’t give Us any insight into what fans can expect from season 2, he did tease viewers by simply stating that the writers and producers can “really take it any way they want.”
“But I’m sure whatever they come up with will be a lot of fun,” he added.
With reporting by Mariel Turner
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