Kit Harington sat down with the folks at The Times to talk about his years-long battle with alcohol and depression.
In the recent interview, the 34-year-old actor shared that he had experienced some “pretty traumatic” events during that timeframe, and many of those incidents involved alcohol.
“You get to a place where you feel like you are a bad person, you feel like you are a shameful person. And you feel that there’s no way out, that’s just who you are,” he explained. “And getting sober is the process of going, ‘No, I can change.’ One of my favorite 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.”
He continued: “I just think that’s the most beautiful thing. It really helped. That was something I kind of clung to; the idea that I could make this huge fundamental change in who I was and how I went about my life.”
He also opened up about his mental health struggles and how his depression became so severe he had contemplated suicide. “I went through periods of real depression where I wanted to do all sorts of things,” he said. “Maybe [speaking about this will] help someone, somewhere. But I definitely don’t want to be seen as a martyr or special. I’ve been through something, it’s my stuff. If it helps someone, that’s good.”
The Game of Thrones star will appear in Modern Love Season 2, and now noted that he has been sober for more than two years and is in a much better place. “[Life is] wonderful,” he said. “I have a child and my relationship is brilliant. I’m a very, very happy, content, sober man.”
You can read the full interview here.
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