Tom Feltonopened up about his past struggles with addiction in his memoir.
“When you’re drinking to escape a situation, even more so.
The habit spilled out of the bar and, from time to time, on to set.”
‘Harry Potter’ star Tom Felton details substance abuse struggles and his escape from rehab in memoir.Mike Marsland/Getty Images
I’d turn up unprepared, not the professional I wanted to be.
The alcohol, though, wasn’t the problem.
It was the symptom."
‘Beyond the Wand’ by Tom Felton.Grand Central Publishing
“Everybody in the room had written me a letter,” he recalled.
I was in no state to hear them."
One letter, however, “hit the hardest.”
It came courtesy of his lawyer, the one person in the room he “knew the least.”
Eleven of them are now dead.
Don’t be the twelfth.'"
His words “cut through” Felton’s anger and denial.
The road to recovery was rocky.
Later, “All of a sudden, the frustration burst out of me,” Felton wrote.
I yelled, full-lung, at the sky and the ocean.
I yelled until I’d let it all out, and I couldn’t yell any more."
Another stint in rehab helped him get back on track.
“I am not alone in having these feelings,” he wrote.
There’s no shame in that.
It’s not a sign of weakness.
“To this day I never know which version of myself I’m going to wake up to.
Which takes us back to the concept of rehab, and the stigma attached to the word.
Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizardis available where books are sold now.
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