{"id":21251,"date":"2023-09-28T16:05:30","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T16:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/?p=21251"},"modified":"2023-09-28T16:05:31","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T16:05:31","slug":"sam-levinson-help-angus-cloud-euphoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/sam-levinson-help-angus-cloud-euphoria\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Levinson’s Efforts to Support Angus Cloud’s Struggle with Addiction: Insights from the ‘Euphoria’ Creator"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Euphoria creator Sam Levinson has broken his silence regarding the tragic passing of Angus Cloud, one of the show’s cast members, in July. Levinson has detailed his multiple efforts to support Angus Cloud in his battle against addiction. The young actor’s death was attributed to a lethal combination of methamphetamine, fentanyl, cocaine, and benzodiazepines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sam Levinson Supports Angus Cloud’s Addiction Recovery: Arranged Rehab, Multiple Interventions, And HBO Cover Costs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sam Levinson, the creator of Euphoria, shared that he arranged for rehab and multiple interventions to support Cloud’s recovery. Levinson emphasized the importance of Cloud’s sobriety for their work together and even arranged for rehab, with HBO covering the costs.<\/p>\n\n\n

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“I could always feel that he didn\u2019t want [sobriety] as much as we all wanted it for him. That\u2019s where it gets tricky because the whole world can want it for you. But he didn\u2019t want it… But you can\u2019t give up on people. I wasn\u2019t going to let anyone give up on him.”<\/p>\nSam Levinson<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Despite the challenges, Levinson remained committed to helping Cloud, going so far as to keep the actor on the show even after his character was supposed to have died.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Sam Levinson’s Ultimatum to Angus Cloud for Euphoria Season 3<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After concluding Season 2, Levinson delivered a clear message to Cloud: sobriety is a requirement for returning to set. Despite Cloud’s initial reassurance that he was doing well, Levinson detected his lack of genuine commitment to recovery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“I could tell, at that time, it was like he wasn\u2019t interested. He wasn\u2019t going to do anything, and yeah, he didn\u2019t want it.”<\/p>\nSam Levinson<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Euphoria creator Sam Levinson has broken his silence regarding the tragic passing of Angus Cloud, one of the show’s cast members, in July. Levinson has detailed his multiple efforts to support Angus Cloud in his battle against addiction. The young actor’s death was attributed to a lethal combination of methamphetamine, fentanyl, cocaine, and benzodiazepines. Sam […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":21282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,11],"tags":[6317,4171,774,712,1413,1294,6318,1607,1444,1519,5725,2605,1634,5017,3494,1608],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21251"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21284,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21251\/revisions\/21284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}