telling the Independent that ‘A character that was created, that no doubt benefited me. And then there was a stage where it all began to crumble around me.’ A low point came after Alexander bombed at the box office and he nearly quit acting for good.
He hit rock bottom while filming Miami Vice. He remembers how he attended the premiere but couldn’t remember scenes in the film.‘The second it was finished I was put on a plane and sent to rehab as everyone else was going to the wrap party,’ he said.
Before that point, he was on the brink of death.‘I remember thinking one day that I’ll go to New York, buy €2,000 worth of smack and rent a bedsit, put black sacks on the window and shoot up until I die.
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