Entertainment- Lucius Malfoy actor
Jason Isaacs opened up about overcoming what he dubbed his "decades-long love affair with drugs" in a new interview with street newspaper The Big Issue. - Isaacs said that his
addiction was so severe that he once thought he "probably wouldn't mind that much" if everybody he knew died: "because then it would be an excuse to sit in a room by myself and take drugs." - Isaacs also said that he first got drunk at 12 years old and when he woke up the next morning, he couldn't wait to do it again: "I chased the sheer ecstatic joy I felt that night for another 20 years with increasingly dire consequences."
- Isaacs, who has now overcome his drug addiction, said that his 16-year-old self would be surprised that he has managed "to find simple happiness in simple things."
Jason Isaacs, who played Lucius Malfoy in the "
"I've always had an addictive personality and by the age of 16 I'd already passed through drink and was getting started on a decades-long love affair with drugs," Isaacs told The Big Issue in their "Letter To My Younger Self" segment.
"Every action was filtered through a burning need I had for being as far from a conscious, thinking, feeling person as possible. No message would get through for nearly 20 years."
Isaacs spoke about the first time he got drunk — when he was 12, and a barman snuck him and his friends a bottle of Southern Comfort.
"We drank the entire thing in the toilet, then staggered out into the party, reeling around farcically. I vomited, fell on and pulled down a giant curtain, snogged a girl, god bless her … ran out into the street, vomited again, tripped, smashed my head open on the pavement and gushed blood all over my clothes," Isaacs said.
Isaacs told The Big Issue that while he woke up the next morning feeling ashamed of himself, with a headache, a wound, and "stinking of puke," he recalled that he could not wait to do it all again.
"Why? I've no idea. Genes? Nurture? Star sign? I just know I chased the sheer ecstatic joy I felt that night for another 20 years with increasingly dire consequences," Isaacs said.
Isaacs said that his addiction was so severe that he once thought that if everybody he knew died, he "probably wouldn't mind that much."
Isaacs continued: "In fact, I might like it, because then it would be an excuse to sit in a room by myself and take drugs and everybody else would say, well you know, fair enough, you heard what happened didn't you?"
Isaacs, who has now overcome his drug problem, said that his 16-year-old self would be surprised that he has managed "to find simple happiness in simple things."
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