Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Gerard Butler Details His Heavy Boozing Past ‘I Didn’t Care If I Died’ (Radar)



By Radar Staff

 Gerard Butler has certainly come a long way since hitting bottom and giving up booze!

The Scottish actor, whose blackout drinking destroyed his career ambitions to become a lawyer in his twenties, explains why he quit drinking and how he got his life back together just in time to become an internationally known actor in an extensive new interview.

 “I had gone from a 16-year-old who couldn’t wait to grasp life to a 22-year-old who didn’t care if he died in his sleep,” the actor revealed to Chris Sullivan of The Red Bulletin about his heavy drinking. Butler, who was working as a trainee at an Edinburgh law firm during the time, explains that his drinking got him fired from the job.

“I used to drink until I couldn’t remember anything. I was just mad for it and on a death wish. It was madness.”


Read more:  http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2012/02/gerard-butler-alcohol-boozing-sober

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