Colin Farrell is blaming his addictive personality for almost taking his life in 2005. The actor who battled drug and alcohol addiction for years came clean in a recent interview with British publication Sunday Times.
Seven years ago Farrell realized that his body was beginning to shutting down and action had to be taken. The then 29-year-old actor decided it was time to check himself into a rehabilitation clinic in Antigua.
”Obviously I’m not a doctor but you don’t have to have a degree in medicine to know when your body’s shutting down. I genuinely didn’t think I had much longer,” Farrell told the Sunday Times. “‘I’d reached the point where the only voices that had any clarity in the room were the voices of destruction and obliteration.”
Farrell claims his addictive personality had been an issue since he was a child.
”I’ve been an addict since I was a kid. I’m not joking man – you can ask my mother,” Farrell admitted to the Sunday Times. “I had a Lion Bar addiction for six months when I was seven. Then I had a Coco Pops addiction. I’d go on Smash mashed potato binges, tins of tuna benders. Anything. I’d get addicted to a crosswind. Whatever made me feel good.”
