SPIDER-MAN Star Would ‘Finish a Minibar’ in His Hotel Before He Got Sober

Published: June 4, 2026

By Michaela Gordoni

SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY star Tom Holland admits he had a serious struggle with alcohol before he finally quit.

“I wouldn’t necessarily describe it as wild, and more at times lonely,” Holland said of his drinking days.

When he drank, it wasn’t at parties or nightclubs, PEOPLE reported. It was often in a hotel room alone.

“[I’d] finish a minibar and go to work the next day,” he said. “So my version of wild was very, I guess, un-Hollywood.”

In a separate interview, he recalled, “Every Friday after work was a write-off: Let’s get drunk and have a good time. I didn’t have bad experiences, but I would drink enough so that I would ruin my next day.”

Though he was quite “sensible” in other aspects, he still drank too much.

Holland reflected on the time, adding “I probably was enjoying myself a lot and was right in the middle of the SPIDER-MAN run, which was the time of my life. I was falling in love.”

“I was making movies that I was really proud of,” he continued. “I was building a career that I was really excited about. And then now I have had this amazing moment where I feel like I got to hit the reset button and end the chapter of being a kid in Hollywood.”

When he got a break and spent some time at home, Holland realized he needed to mature.

“And then also I just wanted to make sure that I was always in love with what I was doing,” he continued. “I think to do what we do, we’re so lucky, and the moment it becomes a chore, there’s something wrong. I don’t know if there was a moment where I doubted being in love with it, but it just felt a little bit like I was not doing my best work, because I was just going to work.”

Holland first quit alcohol in early 2022, for Dry January. Since then, he’s created a line of non-alcoholic beverages called Bero. The brand sells a variety of shandies, pale ales and other non-alcoholic beers.

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The actor’s first month of sobriety wasn’t easy. He found that he was constantly thinking about alcohol.

“It just really scared me. I just was like, ‘Wow, maybe. Maybe I have a little bit of an alcohol thing,’” he said. “So I sort of decided to punish myself and say, ‘I’ll do February as well. I’ll do two months off. If I can do two months off, then I can prove to myself that I don’t have a problem.”

Though it was hard, he resisted the urge month after month. When June came around, he realized he was “the happiest I’ve ever been in my life.”

Hopefully Holland’s story inspires others to quit, too.

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