Paula Patton shares lots in frequent along with her newest function.
The actress performs Religion, a girl who struggles with dependancy and her beliefs within the wake of a private tragedy, in Lifetime’s new movie Discovering Religion. On the third hour of Right this moment‘s Thursday, August 7, episode, Patton opened up about how her personal sobriety and journey with religion influenced her efficiency.
“I had been coping with difficult occasions in my life, proper, and I had stress and I had nervousness. And I’ve all the time handled nervousness. I did, I ought to say,” Patton, who’s seven years sober, shared. On the day she had realized in regards to the movie Discovering Religion, Patton stated she requested God to present her one week the place “every little thing’s understanding in my favor, [and] that there’s nothing to fret about.”
“And I did it, and I felt this peace wash over me. I used to be simply gentle on my ft, going about my day, it was great,” she stated, noting that she dropped her cellphone after being referred to as about starring within the film. “I assumed, ‘That is unbelievable. How, on at the present time?’ However I knew. I knew that that was God. I knew that was the universe speaking to me, that it’s time.”
On Right this moment, Patton famous that the character of Religion’s journey within the movie very a lot “mirrored” her personal life. “I assumed, ‘How can I not be sincere about what I’ve been experiencing, that seven years in the past, I bought sober. I do know what it’s to be in chaos and discover your manner out,’” she defined. “However going again and having to play being inebriated once I hadn’t been inebriated for seven years, I used to be like, ‘How am I gonna do this?’”
Although it was “scary” to revisit her previous struggles, Patton did so with the assist of her household and pals. “I referred to as folks I knew throughout that point. I used to be like, ‘Are you able to remind me how I used to be?’ And I listened to the music that I might hearken to on the time,” she stated. “After which, there was a younger girl who had not too long ago gotten sober and he or she helped me do not forget that mindset. And it’s type of a sufferer mindset.”
It was via the prep and filming course of that Patton was capable of “forgive” her former self. “I used to be capable of give myself grace and simply say, ‘You had been doing the most effective you might on the time. You didn’t know any higher. And so, now you do higher, and it’s okay,’” she shared.
She went on to credit score her 15-year-old son, Julian, with being a beacon of hope for her via her sobriety journey. Patton shares her son along with her ex-husband, Robin Thicke, to whom she was married from 2005 to 2015.
“He’s my finest pal. Once I bought sober, it simply modified my life. He and our neighbor … they had been my two finest pals. And I bought to dwell life once more, like a child via him and her, and it provides you all the explanations to wish to dwell,” she stated.
Discovering Religion, Film Premiere, Saturday, August 9, 8/7c, Lifetime.