Kit Harington has spoken about the hardest moment of his alcoholism, after his time in Game of Thrones, and how in rehab he was diagnosed with a disorder that makes his work as an actor difficult.
Shortly before the end of Game of Thrones in 2019, Kit Harington, its main star, with the permission of Emilia Clarke, entered a rehabilitation clinic due to his alcoholism.
They were a tough few weeks for the actor and his wife, Rose Leslie, who his fans wanted to support by raising funds. But the one who had to deal with it was the Ygritte actress, for whom it was quite a learning experience and commented that it was something that her husband "will always be careful with": "It depends on him whether or not he decides to drink again. He is responsible for his behavior, not me.
The Game of Thrones interpreter has already recovered from these health problems, a product of the fame and success he achieved through the series, increasing after the end of the series that led him to be depressed and have suicidal thoughts.
Now, he has spoken about them again, revealing that, in addition to his alcohol abuse, he was diagnosed with ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) while he was in rehab. He did so in an interview with The Times, in which he comments on how at first he refused help to solve it on his own, "which didn't work after about four years."
Harington explained about having ADHD that his head "wants to take care of all the other things in the room at once," making it very difficult for him to work as an actor: "I don't multitask well. If there's more than one thing going through me head, I feel overwhelmed. I get incredibly restless, anxious. My head is all over the room. I can't deal with it."
All of this got worse after the end of Game of Thrones when he played an alcoholic in Sam Shepard's play, True West, in London in 2018 and 2019: "People treated me like the character, who was a hero and good. But in my life, personally, I didn't feel that way at all. And that, I think, left me with some kind of trauma. I was drinking a lot. I was going through an addiction and everything that entails and hiding things of all kinds. And that was the opposite pole of the character."
"The problem was that then it was not just social. I liked nothing more than drinking alone because it took me out of myself, it took me out of that mental space, it took me out of that anxiety instantly," said the actor who is preparing a spin off of the series, focused on the life of Jon Snow.
