23 May 2025<\/time>\n <\/p>\nBarry Keoghan says he\u2019s an addict.<\/p>\n
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Barry Keoghan: ‘I’m an addict’<\/p>\n
The 32-year-old actor \u2013 who tragically lost his mother to heroin addiction 20 years ago \u2013 opened up in a new interview where he revealed he has accepted that he is also an addict but he is determined to \u201cmove on and learn to work with it\u201d.<\/p>\n
Speaking to Hollywood Authentic, Barry said: \u201cI\u2019m not in denial anymore. I understand that I do have an addiction, and I am an addict. You know, when you accept that, you finally can move on, and learn to work with it.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy father passed away as a result of similar and I lost my mum to it. I\u2019ve lost two uncles and a cousin to drugs. That should be enough to go, \u2018OK, if I dabble here, I\u2019m f*****.\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
Barry \u2013 who has a two-year-old son Brando with ex-girlfriend Alyson Kierans – admitted that he found the temptations in Hollywood too hard to resist, despite his family history.<\/p>\n
\nHe said: \u201cBut your curiosity is a powerful thing. Sometimes it\u2019s beneficial, and sometimes it\u2019s detrimental. For me, it was detrimental. Even my own son coming into this world didn\u2019t stop me from being curious. You know, you go to LA, you go to Hollywood, wherever the big scene is. There\u2019s an enormous amount of pressure, and a different lifestyle that is good and bad for you. You\u2019re around the scene. You just happen to be the one that ends up doing it.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cI\u2019ve got scars here to literally prove it. They\u2019re a result of using. I\u2019m at peace now, and responsible for everything that I do. I\u2019m accepting. I\u2019m present. I\u2019m content. I\u2019m a father. I\u2019m getting to just see that haze that was once there \u2013 it\u2019s just a bit sharper now, and colourful.\u2019 I feel like I\u2019ve arrived. I apologise, too, mainly to myself more than anything else for all the pain I\u2019ve put people and myself through.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nBarry also spoke about witnessing his own mother\u2019s battle with addiction and his hopes that his son will never have to see the same with him.<\/p>\n
\nHe said: \u201cI remember being kids here and hearing my mum scream through the letterbox, asking for us, while she\u2019s battling addiction, while she\u2019s looking for money to score. And we were just told to stay in bed. We weren\u2019t to go down and hug her.\u2019 His honesty and pain brings tears to my eyes and I tell him so. I can\u2019t imagine my own child going through this.\u201d<\/p>\n
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