{"id":102484,"date":"2022-10-20T06:35:07","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T06:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/harry-potter-star-tom-felton-recalls-going-to-rehab-three-times-for-alcohol-abuse-drinking-to-escape\/"},"modified":"2022-10-20T06:35:07","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T06:35:07","slug":"harry-potter-star-tom-felton-recalls-going-to-rehab-three-times-for-alcohol-abuse-drinking-to-escape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/harry-potter-star-tom-felton-recalls-going-to-rehab-three-times-for-alcohol-abuse-drinking-to-escape\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Harry Potter’ star Tom Felton recalls going to rehab three times for alcohol abuse: ‘Drinking to escape’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Harry Potter” actor Tom Felton is speaking out about his past battle with alcohol abuse, which caused him to visit rehab multiple times.<\/p>\n

In Felton’s new memoir, “Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard,” he shared that in his 20s he was drinking heavily to “escape” and revealed his struggles with mental health.<\/p>\n

“Drinking becomes a habit at the best of times\u2026 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,” Felton penned, according to excerpts shared by Entertainment Weekly.<\/p>\n

The 35-year-old star admitted he frequented multiple dive bars in Los Angeles, and it deeply impacted his professional work.<\/p>\n

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“It came to the point where I would think nothing of having a drink while I was working. I’d turn up unprepared, not the professional I wanted to be. The alcohol, though, wasn’t the problem. It was the symptom “<\/p>\n

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“Harry Potter” actor Tom Felton spoke out about his battle with alcohol abuse, causing him to visit rehab multiple times.
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Felton is best known for his role as Draco Malfoy in “Harry Potter” \u2013 Radcliffe’s nemesis in the mega-hit franchise.<\/p>\n

The “Harry Potter” star got candid and addressed in his memoir that his ex-girlfriend, Jade Olivia, staged an intervention, which included having the plan to send him to rehab to help with his alcohol abuse.<\/p>\n

Felton confessed that his agents, managers and lawyers had written him a letter addressing their concerns about his poor drinking habits. He noted he was “in no state to hear them.”<\/p>\n

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In Tom Felton’s new memoir, “Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard,” he shared that in his 20s he was drinking heavily to “escape” and revealed his struggles with mental health.
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However, one letter made the actor change his perspective and “hit the hardest.”<\/p>\n

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“My lawyer, whom I’d barely ever met face to face, spoke with quiet honesty. ‘Tom,’ he said, ‘I don’t know you very well, but you seem like a nice guy. All I want to tell you is that this is the seventeenth intervention I’ve been to in my career. Eleven of them are now dead. Don’t be the twelfth.'”<\/p>\n

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He continued to say that he faced many challenges while attempting to recover, including escaping from a rehab facility less than 24 hours after checking in. Felton added that he was kicked out of another center after he was discovered in a woman’s room. <\/p>\n

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Following these incidents, Felton wrote that another rehab stint helped him get back on track. <\/p>\n

“I am not alone in having these feelings,” he penned.<\/p>\n

“Just as we all experience physical ill-health at some stage in our lives, so we all experience mental ill-health too. There’s no shame in that. It’s not a sign of weakness. And part of the reason that I took the decision to write these pages is the hope that by sharing my experiences, I might be able to help someone else who is struggling.”<\/p>\n

In his memoir, Felton also shared that he secretly had romantic feelings for his co-star, Emma Watson<\/u>. The actor admitted that there was “a spark” between him and the 32-year-old actress.<\/p>\n

“I loved and admired her as a person in a way I could never explain to anybody else,” he wrote.<\/p>\n

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Stephanie Giang-Paunon is an Entertainment Writer for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to stephanie.giang@fox.com and on Twitter: @SGiangPaunon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Harry Potter” actor Tom Felton is speaking out about his past battle with alcohol abuse, which caused him to visit rehab multiple times. In Felton’s new memoir, “Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard,” he shared that in his 20s he was drinking heavily to “escape” and revealed his struggles …<\/p>\n

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