“I went through some pretty horrible stuff”
Since laying down his sword in Game of Thrones, Kit Harington has been fighting other battles. He tells @TheSTMagazine about surviving alcohol addiction and depression - and the first months of fatherhood
thetimes.co.uk/article/kit-ha…
Since laying down his sword in Game of Thrones, Kit Harington has been fighting other battles. He tells @TheSTMagazine about surviving alcohol addiction and depression - and the first months of fatherhood
thetimes.co.uk/article/kit-ha…
Fatherhood and marriage are central to Harington’s new life. Sober for two-and-a-half years following a stint in rehab, it’s a life for which he is very grateful — although cautiously so because sobriety is a fragile thing
He feels settled now; retreating on the horizon is a period so dark he thought about taking his own life. It’s a period that overlapped with the last days of Jon Snow, the Game of Thrones
Life is “wonderful”, he says. “I have a child and my relationship is brilliant… I’m a very, very happy, content, sober man”
My hat goes off to any single parent. Any single parent, you’re a f***ing genius. I don’t know how you do it. Because it’s more exhausting than everything I did on Thrones.”
How does he feel about being labelled one of the world’s sexiest men? “I have a problem with being referred to as incredibly sexy, or a hunk or anything, because it’s incredibly demeaning. It’s demeaning for anyone to be categorised by their appearance"
thetimes.co.uk/article/kit-ha…
thetimes.co.uk/article/kit-ha…
In the three years since he shed Jon Snow’s fur cape “I went through some pretty horrible stuff.”
“Things that have happened to me since Thrones ended, and that were happening during Thrones, were of a pretty traumatic nature and they did include alcohol,”
“Things that have happened to me since Thrones ended, and that were happening during Thrones, were of a pretty traumatic nature and they did include alcohol,”
He puts great emphasis on how dark things got. When asked if he felt suicidal, he hesitates.
“I will give you an answer to that question: the answer is yes."
“I will give you an answer to that question: the answer is yes."
"One of my favourite things I learnt recently is that the expression ‘a leopard doesn’t change its spots’ is completely false: that a leopard actually does change its spots. I just think that’s the most beautiful thing. It really helped."
Read the full interview here: thetimes.co.uk/article/kit-ha…
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