During a recent podcast interview on the Mayim Bialik podcast “Breakdown,” child star now-turned-race car driver, Frankie Muniz discussed living a completely sober life and never having had alcohol.
According to People Magazine, the “Malcom in the Middle” star admitted, “I’ve still never had a sip of alcohol.”
When asked if that was his family tradition, he laughed and stated, “Every family member in my family drinks. And that’s what they do for fun.”
He added, “I tried to figure out why I didn’t, because I don’t have a reason. It wasn’t, like, a religion.”
Then Muniz noted, “When I was 15, 16 years old, I felt like I was so old. I had experienced so much. And I had experienced a lot in my life in comparison to most 15- or 16-year-olds.”
“But even though I was in the entertainment business, I never saw , meaning the drug use, any of that stuff. I somehow stayed away,” he continued.
He explained that while working in Hollywood, “I just went to the set and did my thing.”
He admitted, “I grew up thinking the only people who smoked pot were criminals…on episodes of “Cops.”
Muniz also described how his perception changed over the years, but his habits didn’t. He said, “In my mind, I felt like I had made it so long without it, I was like, ‘Well, I’m not going to start now, even though I was only 18.”
He also described how abstaining from drinking is considered weird, even though it is just a personal choice.
“I was always kind of like, ‘It’s so weird that people have such a strong reaction to me not drinking,” he said.
“Like, who cares? ‘I don’t care what you do. Why do you care so much about me?’ I don’t know if I made a conscious decision, but it just stuck with me that I was never gonna drink or do anything,” he concluded.
