18,000 cigarettes seems like a lot of ciggys to me. It’s also the number of cigarettes Russell Crowe estimates he’s smoked in his lifetime. But, now he says no more!
Russell Crowe, who is 46, says that he was a smoker for 36 years. Holy nicotine, Batman! Starting the habit at age 10 is young.
“Do the maths – I have been smoking for 36 years, I would continuously lie to myself about how much I smoked. [I was] smoking 40 on an easy day, but on a day when I would be up at 4am and still up at midnight, then it was 60-plus and it just got to the point where my body was telling me I had to stop.”
I’m not a smoker now, but I’ve had a butt or three hundred in my life, still…Reading about that much smoke makes my lungs hurt.
Lucky, for Russell’s lungs, that he has two young boys, Charlie and Tennyson, and they’ve given Russell the push he needed to butt out.
“The reality break was that my kids never saw me smoke and Charlie is a little older at six and is in that phase where he is sneaking up on me all the time. I was in my office … and I thought I heard my office door open and I looked around and couldn’t see anything, so I had my cigarette. Later on I leant over to put my cigarette out and he was lying between the couch and the table and he very definitely saw me having a smoke. And that was my very last one.”
Yay for sneaking up on your dad, Charlie! Here’s hoping that Crowe has the strength to keep it up.
Perhaps nicotine withdrawal was the reason that Russell ripped into that interviewer a few months ago over his bad Robin Hood accent. Hee. I just listened to that interview again. It still makes me laugh.
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Marilyn also blogs about parenting and life over at A Lot of Loves.
