The 'Terminator' star opens up about his substance abuse, rumors of homelessness and finally finding himself: 'Not only did I learn how to live as a sober person, but I learned how to have a life outside the business.'
Now 41 and clean for four years, Stahl has returned from a self-imposed exile to resurrect his Hollywood career. He knew it wouldn’t be easy. “I expected some resistance, I guess,” he says. “I figured I had a negative reputation. I knew that there were probably some questions.” But Stahl was pleasantly surprised at the reception to his return. “Casting directors welcomed me back.
Stahl thinks the roots of his struggles lie in early childhood. “From a very young age, I was always under this blanket of fear, financial fear,” he says. “There was this idea that if we didn’t come up with enough money for that month, we would end up on the street. That colored my outlook growing up. My default mode was untrusting, with this mentality of waiting for the other shoe to drop.”
He says the party circuit got “old and boring,” but it offered the means to get high, and so he kept showing up. For a long while, he blended in with the rest of the young Hollywood social set. “It probably appeared to friends that I liked to party. I think I was able to conceal the severity of things from people pretty well,” he recalls. But he was sliding into the quicksand of addiction., Stahl was cast as the title menace indirector Larry Clark, based on a real Florida murder case.
In 2009, after a second failed attempt at rehab in L.A., Stahl, then 29, moved back to Texas, settling in Austin. There he met and married Rose Murphy; they had a daughter the following year. Amazingly, Stahl was never fired from a job. But he saw that day coming. He decided to step away from acting in 2012 after filming a two-episode guest arc on, an ABC procedural. “I really struggled to show up,” he recalls of the gig. “I was physically there, but I was checked out, and I certainly wasn’t feeling any real enthusiasm for acting anymore.” Failing to show up can have career-long repercussions, and, through the haze of addiction, Stahl was able to recognize that.
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