Kit Harington opens up about sobriety after revealing suicidal thoughts: ‘I was so lucky’

nypost.com:

GQ Hype about his past issues in an interview published Monday. “I was so lucky I got sober before having kids,” Harington told the outlet, revealing that at one time it felt “physically and emotionally impossible for me not to drink again.” Harington shares two kids — a 3-year-old son and 1-year-old daughter -— with his wife, former “Game of Thrones” co-star Rose Leslie, 37.

The couple tied the knot in 2018 at Leslie’s ancestral castle in Scotland. Harington first addressed his dark thoughts while speaking to the Times in 2021. “Things that have happened to me … of a pretty traumatic nature, and they did include alcohol,” he said at the time. “You get to a place where you feel like you are a bad person; you feel like you are a shameful person.

And you feel that there’s no way out, that’s just who you are.” When asked if he had felt suicidal before, Harington said, “I will give you an answer to that question: the answer is yes.

Yes of course. I went through periods of real depression where I wanted to do all sorts of things.” Harington told GQ on Monday that his attitude has changed since he sought treatment for alcoholism in 2019. “Before getting sober, I would stare in the mirror and call myself a c–t.