Ron Howard is getting candid about his regrets over his brother's struggles with addiction. Clint Howard previously struggled with sobriety.
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According to People, both of the Howard brothers spoke about Clint's struggles with sobriety.
"I had been really strictly controlled as a kid. My parents must have been worried about kidnapping and other things," Ron shared. "So I pushed mom and dad. To give him more freedom and more flexibility. And even when Clint was starting to smoke pot and things like that... I wasn't using any drugs, but I had really good friends who were and were highly functional and socially responsible about it. And I just I said, 'You know, this is not, it's not a nightmare. This is changing times, relax.'"
Ron says that he told his parents to back off when they could have potentially helped.
Ron Howard Carries Regrets
"And so those are regrets that I have," he admitted.
Howard said, "That was a difficult, heartbreaking time and thing to witness. It was terrifying, and I wasn't sure Clint was going to make it out. I don't think mom and dad were sure he was going to make it out."
However, Clint disagrees with Ron Howard's assessment of him having guilt. He says that ROn shouldn't feel guilty.
"Listen, I don't know... What's a big brother going to do? I mean, I love Ron. And I knew what he was thinking," he continued. "He gave me the speech, because he had been around a lot of young actors that get loaded and high or whatever, and he goes, 'You know, it's one thing when you use drugs, but it's another thing when drugs start using you.'"
Clint also said, "One problem with Ron is this. His talks were a little cliché. But if he would have played it differently? I may have fully rejected it. Ron and I were always really close."
