Daniel Radcliffe Update: Did The British Actor Turned To Alcohol To Cope With Failure And Shame? [VIDEO]
The British actor reveals that he has turned to alcohol when the record-settting franchise was coming to an end. In an interview with Marc Maron of WTF with Marc Maron Podcast, the Harry Potter star admitted the reason why he turned to drinking and what made him realize that it is not healthy anymore for him.
"There was definitely a time when I was coming out of Potter into the real world, and suddenly I was in a world when I was not in that consistency anymore," Radcliffe reveals. "I was living alone, and I think I was really freaked out... I drank a lot, as has been recorded, but I think that was more to do with going out in public and having a battle within me of thinking, 'No I can have a totally normal life."
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The 26-year-old performer who stars as the boy wizard at 10 admitted that since 2003 he has been sober, and commented that, "You get bored waking up feeling like that."
Radcliffe discusses with The Guardian a year ago on why he wanted to give up on drinking for a programme which aired with Sky Arts and said he turned to alcohol to cope with the pressure of fame and failing.
"It is not a real pressure, but it is a pressure of living with the thought, 'Oh, what if all these people are saying I am not going to have a career?," he told The Guardian. "What if they are all going to be right and will be laughing and I will be consigned to a bunch of 'Where are they now?' lists?"
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According to Yahoo, Dr. Robi Ludwig, a psychotherapist, TV news commentator and contributor to Investigative Discovery’s Scorned. Commented on Radcliffe’s health, “Sometimes certain events trigger certain addictions, because addiction is a way to not feel what’s uncomfortable.” adds that the timing of Radcliffe’s drinking issue “makes sense, especially since this an actor and his whole identity, in a sense, revolved around this character and this movie. It brings up a lot of pain.”
Radcliffe, who stars in the upcoming movies Victor Frankenstein and Now You See Me 2, "must ask himself some difficult questions, such as, What's next? Is my career really over at this point? Who am I? Will people only want me if I'm doing this role?", says Ludwig.
