![]() Though there was no distinct rock bottom to kick him back into gear, Arnett is certain of what motivated him to get sober again. And for me, it happened as easily as it had : It was right there.” He had tried to convince himself that slipping back into his old ways was something he needed to do to play the part of Chip, but over time, he said he hated the way he felt. “I described it at a meeting recently like a whistle off in the distance for a train you know is coming for you,” he explained. He reported that he’s attending AA meetings (when they don’t conflict with his sons’ T-ball practices). While he didn’t get specific about the nature of his recovery, he did insist that he is back on the wagon once again and has been for at least a few months. (Fortunately, later reviews have been more uplifting.) Bad reviews are always unpleasant, but bad reviews about something that so closely resembles one’s real life are downright painful - and the 45-year-old star wasn’t sure if all the effort was even worth it. Making a tenuous situation even worse, the early reviews of his passion project were pretty scathing. “Hardly anybody knows this - but I started drinking again.” “As I was writing all this s*** and I start shooting it, I started getting confused about where I was at,” he revealed. It was like, ‘Oh wait, if I get sober, this is all it takes?’” Fast-forward a little over a decade to Arnett, alone, working on Flaked. “I was in love with the person I wanted to be with, and I was back to making good money. “She and I spent the whole night talking,” he recalled to the Hollywood Reporter. ![]() Amy was actually on a date when she and Will were introduced, but her date didn’t go well. Will met Amy in 2000 in New York, just after he got sober for the first time and after she landed her life-changing gig on Saturday Night Live. Personally, his nine-year marriage to Amy Poehler (which is about a century by Hollywood standards) was coming to an end, as was his sitcom Up All Night. The idea for the series came to Arnett in the summer of 2012, when he was in a “tricky place” in his life. READ ALSO: B.C.Sometimes art imitates life, and sometimes it goes the other way around - just ask Will Arnett, the star and co-creator of Flaked, a show about a 40-something man named Chip who is struggling with sobriety, a character that is more than loosely based on the star’s real life. “It’s a holiday … so they’ll make sure it’s good for the weekend, whether they actually come back and start the rebuilding process, I don’t know when that starts,” said Ten Have. He didn’t know when repairs would be happening. Looks like truck may have struck overpass. #TrafficAlert crews on scene near Norwell-Jingle Pot intersection in #Nanaimo. Right now it’s shut off to pedestrian traffic.” “Right now it appears that just the concrete has been flaked off, so we made sure everything was tight up there, nothing’s going to fall on cars, but Mainroad’s going to be back to service that, make sure it’s structurally sound. “They’ll bring an engineer out to make sure all the high-tension lines and the rebar, everything is intact,” said Ten Have. The highway lanes were cleaned up and Mainroad Mid-Island Contracting is looking after the overpass structure. Earle Ten Have, with Nanaimo Fire Rescue, told the News Bulletin indications are the truck was driving with its rails up, just high enough to hit the bottom of the bridge, knocking off some concrete. 30, and a lane was closed off while crews cleaned debris and the structure was evaluated.Ĭapt. Police and firefighters were called out to the intersection at 10:30 a.m. Southbound traffic on old Island Highway in Nanaimo slowed after the overpass at Norwell Drive and Jingle Pot Road sustained damage. A truck squeezed under an old Island Highway pedestrian overpass this morning, but knocked concrete onto the roadway in the process.
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