He continued to say: ”For me, I just happened to be in a situation the very last time and I said, ‘You know what? I don’t think I can continue doing this.’
“And I reached out for help and I ran with it, you know? Because you can reach out for help in a half-assed way, and you’ll get it, and you won’t take advantage of it. You know?
“It’s really not that difficult to overcome these seemingly ghastly problems. What’s hard is to decide.
“If I didn’t believe in myself, there’s no way I would have made it this far,” Downey added when talking to The New York Times Magazine.