He was trying to fight his demons till the end.
Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman had been attending meetings for struggling drug and booze addicts at a Greenwich Village center for as long as 30 years — even up until at least the week before he died, witnesses told The Post on Tuesday.
“I told him to keep coming back, and he said, ‘Yeah, I will,’” said Jose Torres, recalling when he last saw Hoffman at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting at the Perry Street Workshop around Jan. 25.
“I remember asking, ‘How are you doing?’ And he said, ‘OK. There are the little situations in life. Life still shows up,’ ” said Torres, 53, from SoHo.
Torres said Hoffman was wearing jeans, dark boots and a dark coat for the 8:30 p.m. session, and “He was doing fine at the moment.’
“He went to a lot of different places, but he came here mostly,’’ said Torres, who added that the actor had been attending the Perry Street center for as long as three decades.
“Everybody loved him, and he loved everybody no matter who you were,’’ Torres said.
Another man at the center said he last saw Hoffman there about two months ago.
“He was trying to get sober… He would come in the day or evening time,’’ said Edward Donohue, 58.
“He would speak sometimes… He might raise his hands and say something about what he was going through that day.”
“He was like a regular guy. He would be polite, well-dressed. He’d have his coffee and hang out with people across the street. They would smoke and talk to him,’’ Donohue added.