‘I kept my alcoholism secret on Mission: Impossible set,’ Simon Pegg reveals

Simon Pegg: ‘Eventually it just gets to a point when it can’t be hidden, and that’s when, thankfully, I was able to pull out of the dive.’ Photograph: Suki Dhanda/The Observer

Simon Pegg faced his own mission impossible, tackling both his addiction and eventual recovery, while working on the major Hollywood film franchise alongside Tom Cruise, he will explain in a revealing radio interview on Sunday morning.

Speaking of a secret reliance upon alcohol that he hid while working on film sets in the early 2000s, Pegg admits: “You become very sneaky when you have something like that in your life.”