Throughout an look on Monday’s episode of SiriusXM’s The Howard Stern Present, the actor — who has been sober since 2013 — shared how Streisand approached his previous alcoholism, recalling the time when she referred to as him out when he requested for a drink.

Brolin, 56, who’s selling his memoir From Beneath the Truck, first shared the story earlier this week throughout an interview with The Sunday Instances. The Dune star recalled how he as soon as walked into his father, James Brolin and Streisand’s home and requested a glass of purple wine, with Streisland allegedly replying, “However aren’t you a drunk?”

Stern introduced up the second throughout his dialog with Brolin, saying he was “moved” by the story.

“And that is why I recognize her loads,” Brolin replied after Stern recalled the anecdote. Then, the Goonies star obtained candid about his relationship together with his stepmother.

“I imply, we argued for years, , as a result of she was very easy,” he mentioned. “And possibly jogged my memory, not directly, of a way more wholesome model of my mom.”

“She was this type of, like, typical Jewish mom who was like, ‘You’ll be able to’t do this as a result of that may harm you. You realize, you gotta eat. You look too skinny.’ … She’s like, ‘Why would you drink? You are an alcoholic,’” Brolin continued.

He added, “I really like that degree of honesty, no matter my response. I am like, ‘Look, you are not gonna cease me from doing what I wish to do. I am an grownup.’ And he or she was like, ‘No. You are an alcoholic. I am not gonna provide you with wine. Alcoholics cannot drink wine as a result of it is dangerous for them.’”

Stern famous that with Streisand, “It is at all times been the case, in her means, a language that took me some time to study and that I totally embrace now.”

Brolin detailed his struggles together with his alcohol and sobriety journey in his memoir, From Beneath the Trunk.

“I used to be born to drink. I used to be birthed to drink. My mom drank precisely like I did, and I used to be raised to be a person and drink just like the male equal of my mom,” he wrote, per The Sunday Instances.

In line with the outlet, Brolin — who’s the son of legendary actor James Brolin and his first spouse Jane Agee — was solely 9 years previous when he first tried marijuana and 13 when he dropped acid for the primary time.

As The Sunday Instances famous, Brolin struggled with alcohol abuse throughout his twenties, thirties, and early forties, however had some durations of sobriety. He mentioned that he tried his finest, however was not at all times profitable, in hiding his ingesting from his two eldest youngsters, Trevor, 36, and Eden, 29, whom he welcomed throughout his marriage to his first spouse, Alice Adair.

The Oscar nominee divorced Adair in 1994, and later married Diane Lane in 2004, earlier than the pair divorced in 2013. Brolin went on to tie the knot with Kathryn Boyd just a few years later. The couple shares two youngsters: Westlyn, 6, and Chapel, 3.

Throughout his interview with The Sunday Instances, Brolin mentioned that he made the choice to give up ingesting for good in 2013. In line with the True Grit star, the second got here after he awoke hung over on the pavement outdoors his home, and remembered that the had gotten right into a struggle at a quick meals drive-thru. He mentioned he then went to his 99-year-old grandmother’s home, and realized that whereas his grandma was almost 100 and on her deathbed, he nonetheless had half of his life to stay — and wished to spend it sober.

“I knew that was going to be the final time I drank,” he recalled.

After he made his determination, Brolin went to rehab, joined Alcoholics Nameless, and celebrated 10 years of sobriety final yr.

“I like getting older. It’s like an important excuse to lastly go, ‘OK, simply mellow out, you needn’t continuously spin,’” he instructed The Sunday Instances.

From Beneath the Truck is accessible now.