Harry Potter star Jason Isaacs opens up about his drug addiction
Harry Potter actor Jason Isaacs has opened up about his past issues with drugs.
The actor, best known for playing Lucius Malfoy in the film series, admitted that he has been dealing with substance issues from a young age.
Speaking to The Big Issue's Letter to My Younger Self, he said: "I've always had an addictive personality and by the age of 16 I'd already passed through drink and was getting started on a decades-long love affair with drugs."
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Isaacs recalled the first time he got drunk at the age of 12.
"The barman, who we thought at the time was a hero and I now realise belonged in prison, sneaked us a full bottle of Southern Comfort," he said.
"We drank the entire thing in the toilet, then staggered out into the party, reeling around farcically.
"I vomited, fell on and pulled down a giant curtain, snogged a girl, God bless her... ran out into the street, vomited again, tripped, smashed my head open on the pavement and gushed blood all over my clothes."
He continued: "The next morning, I woke up with a splitting headache, stinking of puke with a huge scab and the memory of having utterly shamed myself.
"All I could think was... I cannot f**king wait to do that again. Why? I've no idea. Genes? Nurture? Star sign?
"I just know I chased the sheer ecstatic joy I felt that night for another 20 years with increasingly dire consequences."
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The Star Trek: Discovery actor also revealed the moment he decided to get clean, saying it "suddenly occurred to me that if everybody I knew died, literally every single person, I probably wouldn't mind that much".
"In fact, I might like it, because then it would be an excuse to sit in a room by myself and take drugs and everybody else would say, 'Well you know, fair enough, you heard what happened didn't you?'," he added.
"The drugs weren't a way of dealing with that sense of distance, the drugs were causing it."
The full interview is available in this week's Big Issue.
For more on drug addiction and dependency, including information and support, please visit FRANK or Action on Addiction.
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