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David's health scare derailed Nic's recovery journey, and he began using again after 18 months of sobriety. Both books were temporarily put on hold as David recovered and Nic got sober.
At the end of the Beautiful Boy book, he noted Nic had been sober for a year, and hoped he would remain so, though was aware of the probability of potential relapse. Now Sheff's story has...
The film, starring Timothée Chalamet as Nic and Steve Carell as his father, David, is based on bestselling memoirs written by both David and Nic, who’s now 36 and has been sober for eight...
Watching Timothee Chalamet portray Nic as a teenager, and Steve Carell play his father David Sheff is a difficult journey for Nic, now 36, but one filled with hope, as he proudly reveals that...
In a Chronicle photograph taken in 2008, the year “Tweak” was published, Nic still had dark circles under his eyes and the sad, spent visage of a newly sober addict. His last relapse, in fact,...
"Beautiful Boy" is the name of the memoir journalist David Sheff wrote in 2008 about the struggles of his son Nic. Nic, who was 25 and two years sober at the time, had written his own...
Nic doesn't put the blame squarely on the shoulders of his bipolar disorder but says that it made staying sober much more difficult. Nic eventually began taking medication after reading his father's memoir.
