Rose Leslie supports her husband Kit Harington’s sobriety but says she won’t mother her former “Game of Thrones” co-star to keep him on the wagon.
“For Kit, being an addict, it’s very important for him to recognize himself as such,” the Scottish actress, 35, told Harper’s Bazaar UK for its June cover story. “The AA community has provided such a loving space for him to feel heard, to make sure he’s not alone. But if it weren’t for rehab, he would be in a very different headspace right now.”
Harington, who’s also 35 and starred as Jon Snow on the HBO series, opened up to The Sunday Times last year about battling both addiction and depression. He confessed he “went through some pretty horrible stuff” while filming the final season of “Thrones,” checking into rehab in Connecticut ahead of the May 2019 series finale.
In January 2018, he was kicked out of a Manhattan bar for being drunk and disorderly.
“We’re now several years into his sobriety,” Leslie, who is part of A1-Anon, which supports the loved ones of alcoholics, told BAZAAR. “I’ve learnt a lot about addiction and it’s something Kit is forever going to be aware of, but it’s on him whether he chooses to drink again. No amount of nannying is going to be able to stop him from doing what he decides to do... I don’t choose to put that pressure on myself.”
In his interview with the Times, Harington said he “went through periods of real depression where I wanted to do all sorts of things,” noting he even struggled with suicidal feelings.
He also admitted to at one point having hid his addiction battle from Leslie and others close to him. “I will say about my addictions that I kept them very, very quiet and I was incredibly secretive and incredibly locked up with them.”
“The responsibility of his behavior is on him,” Leslie told Bazaar. “It’s not on me to guard him from it.”
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