Robert Downey Jr.’s Journey From Prison and Addiction to Iron Man: He ‘Literally Became a Superhero’

Robert Downey Jr.’s Journey From Prison and Addiction to Iron Man: He ‘Literally Became a Superhero’

For Robert Downey Jr., going to prison wasn’t the most difficult part of cleaning up his act. “What’s hard is to decide,” he once said of getting sober in 2003. That’s not to say Downey, 61, had it easy. The Oscar-winning Oppenheimer star became addicted to drugs when he was just 8, two years after his late father, director and screenwriter Robert Downey Sr., introduced him to marijuana. He spent the next three decades in and out of rehab facili…