Kit Harington opens up about feeling ‘suicidal’ and going sober

Game of Thrones (GoT) star Kit Harington recently got candid about his mental health struggles and why he decided to go sober.

It’s often traumatic incidents in our lives that lead to path-breaking decisions.

Game of Thrones (GoT) star Kit Harington recently got candid about his mental health struggles and why he decided to go sober. The actor shared that there were many “traumatic” events in his life.

“Things that have happened to me since ‘Thrones’ ended, and that were happening during ‘Thrones’, were of a pretty traumatic nature and they did include alcohol. You get to a place where you feel like you are a bad person, you feel like you are a shameful person,” Kit told The Times.

The 34-year-old actor added, “And you feel that there’s no way out, that’s just who you are. And getting sober is the process of going, ‘No, I can change.’ One of my favourite 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. 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.”

Kit also felt suicidal at times.

“I went through periods of real depression where I wanted to do all sorts of things… 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,” he shared, according to Just Jared.

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