Kit Harington: Before getting sober, I couldn’t be proud

Kit Harington: Before getting sober, I couldn’t be proudAugust 12, 2024Los Angeles, Aug 12 (IANS) “Game Of Thrones” star Kit Harington says he is “lucky” to have kicked his addiction issues before becoming a father because he “hated himself” when he was drinking.
“I was so lucky I got sober before having kids … The very fact that I can be proud of it (being sober) is an achievement. Because before getting sober, I would stare in the mirror and call myself a …. I’d hate myself,” he told GQ Hype.“I would literally despise myself and not be proud of anything I’d done. I couldn’t be proud. So the fact that I am proud of getting sober is in and of itself a mark of being an entirely different person. “Harington and Rose Leslie got married in Scotland in 2018, seven years after meeting on the set of “Game Of Thrones”, and they are now parents to a three-year-old son and a 12-month-old daughter.The actor went on to say that parenting has changed him a lot because it’s forced him to become less “self-centred”, reports femalefirst.co.uk.”I say this with love for myself – I’m quite self-centred. I think I’m a generous person and a loving person (too). But with kids, you just don’t get to be self-centred. They strip you of it. And that’s an amazing gift. (Kids) are ultimately completely self-centred. They don’t think about anyone else but themselves.”So your self-centredness just has to park itself. And I think it’s the great thing about parenting. At the heart of it, it’s the most selfless thing you can do.”–IANSdc/