Kit Harington Reveals He Would 'Stare in the Mirror and Call Myself a C---' Before Getting Sober: 'I Would Literally Despite Myself'

Kit Harington is sharing more details about the moment he decided he needed to cut out booze from his life for good.

"I was so lucky I got sober before having kids,” the actor, 37, who shares two kids with wife Rose Leslie , shared in a new interview, adding that it was “physically and emotionally impossible for me not to drink again.”

The Game of Thrones star, who checked into rehab in 2019 , said he's now come out on the other side, but it wasn't easy.

“The very fact that I can be proud of it is an achievement,” he told GQ Hype in an interview that was published on Monday, August 12. “Because before getting sober , I would stare in the mirror and call myself a c---. I'd hate myself. I would literally despise myself and not be proud of anything I'd done. I couldn't be proud. So the fact that I am proud of getting sober is in and of itself a mark of being an entirely different person. And now, every set I step onto, whatever work I do, I'm proud of, because I know I put everything into it. Whereas before I had this huge monkey on my back that was just, like, weighing me down. So yeah, the whole nature of being proud of myself is a relatively new prospect for me.”

For now, the handsome hunk is staying positive amid his wellness journey. “Look, I can't tell what the future brings,” he stated. “I might have one massive, messy, chaotic relapse . And I hope that doesn't happen. But I think I protect myself by talking about it.”

One of the reasons the dad-of-two spoke out in the first place was that he hopes to help others “who had the same problem, and who are living a really, really genuinely happy, content life, and can't imagine going back to what I [would be] going back to.”

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Harington checked into a luxe Connection health retreat weeks before HBO aired the finale.

In 2022, he told The Guardian that he was "well on [his] path to recovery."

“All I can say to anyone thinking about it is it’s a wonderful way of living your life. It saved me, for sure," he told the outlet.