Tom Felton’s Biggest ‘Beyond the Wand’ Book Revelations: His 3 Rehab Stints, Getting Arrested, ‘Harry Potter’ Cast Relationships and More

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Ten points for Slytherin! Tom Felton’s debut memoir, Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard, dives deep into every aspect of the actor’s personal and professional life, from his relationships with the main Harry Potter cast — Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint — to his own personal battles, including substance abuse issues and several run-ins with the law while filming the franchise.Felton, 35, famously portrayed the platinum blonde, bad-boy-turned-ultimate-good-guy Draco Malfoy throughout all eight of the Harry Potter films, starting with 2001’s Sorcerer’s Stone — which was released when the British star was just 14.During this time, the Surrey native revealed in Beyond the Wand (out Tuesday, October 18) that he was caught while attempting to steal a DVD “of adult nature” from HMV, a video/CD store chain in England.

Though the news was kept quiet at the time, Felton shared that he was named and shamed within the store: his photo was plastered on the wall — where it’s still hanging, the actor claimed.In another hush-hush incident (which Warner Bros., the company that distributed the Harry Potter franchise, never found out about), the Origin alum “was going through a typical adolescent phase” and got arrested for weed possession.While these moments were more light-hearted, Felton struggled with substance abuse later on in his life while living in Los Angeles post-Potter.“It came to the point where I would think nothing of having a drink while I was working,” he wrote in the book, explaining that his team and then-girlfriend staged an intervention for him.The Flash alum’s first two attempts at rehab, however, were unsuccessful.