From the sudden loss of life of his mother to an uphill battle with dependancy, Josh Brolin‘s 56 years of existence had been filled with heartache, turmoil and oftentimes surreal moments.

In his newly released memoir, “From Below the Truck,” the “Goonies” actor opens up about his rocky upbringing, the fine facts of his alcoholism, fatherhood and varied out-of-this-world experiences, including the time he says he witnessed John Travolta heal Marlon Brando in stepmother Barbra Streisand’s lounge for the length of a dinner occasion.

“I had been invited to a dinner with John Travolta; Kelly, his honest staunch-wanting and uber-enjoyable vital other; Marlon Brando; a redhead Marlon had met on the rep; my pops and his vital other, Barbra (a singer),” Brolin wrote. “I used to be twenty-seven years historical and the total reason I got into acting used to be thanks to the early movies I had watched starring Marlon and the dumb James Dean (who, incidentally, died from an automobile accident on the outskirts of my dilemma of beginning of Paso Robles and ended up within the the same morgue that my mother would upright months before the fortieth anniversary of his loss of life).”

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Josh Brolin recounted a necessary person-studded dinner occasion in his unusual memoir. (Getty Photos)

“Wow. I used to be going to fulfill the Marlon Brando,” he recalled thinking at the time.

“When [Marlon] stepped from the auto and stood up, he reached down and pulled up his pant leg. Below it used to be blood running down his leg,” he persisted. “He defined that he had stopped to abet some of us pull their cars from a landslide on the Pacific Wing twin carriageway, and when he tried to pull a cat out of some mud, it got traction and the bumper hit his leg.”

Brolin mentioned it used to be at that level he heard Travolta, a longtime and smartly-known Scientologist, assure, “I upright got to the next stage!”

“Marlon sauntered up to John and John to Marlon and they gave every different an ebullient hug,” he wrote. “John excitedly told Marlon how he had upright accomplished a [Scientology] course on therapeutic and that he could presumably well abet him. John grabbed Marlon softly by the hand and led him internal, toward Barbra’s lounge.”

“By the level I walked in, Marlon used to be prostrate on a chaise lounge and John told him to shut his eyes,” he persisted. “I stood there quietly and left mine start. John attach his hand on Marlon’s leg, then his different hand on Marlon’s chest. Time handed, quietly. No person spoke. I used to be the person farthest away from them. I watched. Marlon Brando and Danny Zuko. Here is insane.”

Brolin had a memorable moment with Travolta and Brando at a dinner occasion hosted by stepmother Barbra Streisand. (Getty Photos)

“How is that?” Brolin recalled Travolta asking Brando.

“Wow,” Brando answered.

“I know, it’s in actuality one thing,” mentioned Travolta.

“Marlon stood up, having a think much less blanched than before,” Brolin wrote. “I had upright witnessed John Travolta repair Marlon f—ing Brando.”

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For the length of his book, Brolin shares varied reports of his upbringing, the challenges he confronted after losing his mother, Jane – who died in a automobile rupture in 1995 – and the scheme Streisand’s “historical-long-established” system to motherhood at remaining helped him ride forward with searching for sobriety.

“The reality is [Jane and Streisand] would’ve hated every different,” Brolin wrote. “I’m happy of that. Difficult of us nearly continuously hate different advanced of us except one has let their guard down. But I’ve continuously loved advanced girls folks.”

Josh Brolin turned Streisand’s stepson when his father married her in 1998. (Gareth Cattermole/Getty Photos)

Streisand and Brolin’s father, James Brolin, married in 1998, when Josh used to be 30 years historical. Within the book, he recalled a moment in which Streisand gently known as him out whereas he used to be deep in his alcoholism.

“I walked into their apartment one day: ‘I’ll have a tumbler of wine,’ I mentioned. She appeared at me and cocked her head, so I repeated myself. ‘I’ll have a tumbler of red wine, please.’ She took a dumb breath then hit me with: ‘Aren’t you an alcoholic?'” Brolin wrote.

“It used to be a honest staunch-wanting ballsy thing to assure,” he persisted. “I knew her for a whereas already, she used to be my dad’s vital other now, and he used to be in actuality in delight in along side her, and from what I could presumably well snarl, so used to be she with him. ‘Aren’t you supposed to now not be ingesting?’ Man, there it’s again. She continuously had a system of washing her tongue with a bulls— cleanser before she talked with me. My have mother used to be delight in that, so it didn’t paralyze me, however my have mother used to be pointless, so this used to be going to pray to produce.”

“‘It’s lovely. It’s upright a tumbler of wine,’ I tried to clarify. ‘I [don’t] mediate you’re supposed to drink the relaxation, staunch?'” Brolin wrote.

Josh Brolin spoke about his relationship with Barbra Streisand in his memoir. (Joe Maher/Getty Photos)

“It’s a puzzle, the psychology of successful, irrespective of the implications. I wished what I wished and that used to be my only downside. I would been to penal advanced extra than a couple of times by then. I had attach my teens in jeopardy. I had misplaced relationships and friendships. I knew that having a drink would now not produce the relaxation better, however used to be very likely to produce any enlighten eventually worse,” he persisted.

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The Wonder necessary person mentioned his relationship with Streisand “started sizable, soured, then grew in value.”

James Brolin, Barbra Streisand and Josh Brolin abet the “Jonah Hex” Los Angeles premiere held at ArcLight Cinemas Cinerama Dome on June 17, 2010, in Hollywood, Calif. (Lester Cohen/WireImage)

“My mother used to be pointless and no-one used to be going to interchange my have mother, irrespective of how poisonous my have mother could presumably well had been,” he wrote. “[Barbra] signed a card for me as soon as: Take care of, Mom. You peek, there it’s. Mom. You are now not my mother. You are my stepmother. Who wants to be a stepmother though? No person. It connotes rude intentions: drastic compensations for beauty insecurities, misery loves firm, me me me syndrome. She wasn’t that. She wished a family. She used to be being kind.”

James Brolin holds his son, Josh Brolin, alongside his vital other, actress Jane Cameron Agee, circa 1972. (Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Photos)

“That horny Jewish mother,” he persisted. “I would heard about them. I would discover about them. I would had some company with these. They’re nearly continuously comically on the offense.”

“She by no scheme saw that man I used to be,” he added. “She used to be by no scheme [privy] to these issues that landed me in penal advanced or in fights or determining why I used to be waking up on the sidewalks with my T-shirt wrapped around my in any other case bare waist. That’s what I understood a mother to be for the longest time. This used to be different. This used to be upright straightforward historical-long-established mothering. I had to assemble faded to it.”

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James Brolin and Barbra Streisand had been married for nearly 30 years. (Serge BENHAMOU/Gamma-Rapho through Getty Photos)

Brolin – who is dad to four: Trevor Mansur, 36, and Eden, 29, who he shares with ex-vital other Alice Adair, and daughters Westlyn Reign, 6, and Chapel Grace, 3, with vital other Kathryn Boyd – found sobriety at Forty five years historical.

In September, for the length of an look on the SiriusXM podcast “The put Everyone Is conscious of Your Title” with co-hosts Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson, Brolin spread out about how his 99-year-historical grandmother used to be eventually the one who pushed him toward restoration in 2013.

Recalling his remaining night of ingesting, Brolin mentioned he “awoke on the sidewalk” attain a Del-Taco.

Brolin detailed his dependancy shuffle in his upcoming memoir, “From Below the Truck.” (Getty Photos)

“I didn’t know where my automobile used to be, and it wasn’t that uncommon,” mentioned the “Dune” actor, who used to be supposed to ride peek his grandmother on her deathbed. “That used to be upright, you realize, the 400th time that it came about.”

“I used to be supposed to have picked up my brother and taken them because I used to be the roughly, I used to be the one within the family that attach the entirety together and structured the entirety and controlled the entirety,” he added. “Anyway, I awoke on the sidewalk, went internal. My brother known as me. ‘The put are you?’ Picked him up, walked into that sanatorium at remaining.”

As soon as he got to his grandmother’s room, he mentioned the entirety modified from that moment on.

Josh Brolin, pictured in 1987. (Frank Carroll/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal through Getty Photos through Getty Photos)

“Everyone knew when I walked into the room, [she] picked her head up and appeared at me and smiled and that used to be it,” he mentioned. “I used to be performed. I mentioned, ‘If this lady could presumably well assemble thru 99 years on existence’s phrases, how dare me?’”

“I mentioned, ‘How dare me,’ and I would gotten away with, I used to be Forty five years historical, and I would gotten away with loads, been in penal advanced nine times, performed moderately bit of irrespective of,” he persisted. “So I believed, I ponder if I could presumably well produce that half of of existence delight in that and then produce this half of of existence delight in this. Then I assemble to are residing two lives and never upright one.”

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Fox News Digital’s Emily Trainham contributed to this document.