Popular British actor Tom Hardy, who recently stuffed a tattoo with the name Leonardo di Caprio on his biceps, made a terrific admission.

In a recent interview on the show "Good Morning, Britain," Hardy said that he led a riotous lifestyle, drank, used cocaine and crack.

“I was an alcoholic for most of my adult life,” Tom said emotionally in a new interview..

The 41-year-old actor also said that he started drinking alcohol and drugs when he was only 11 years old.. At 13, the boy was already sitting tight on hallucinogenic, and at 16 he began to use crack - a type of cocaine, reports the Metro publication.

“Then I was ready to sell my mother for another crack,” the actor recalled with horror.

In 2003, as a result of an overdose, Hardy was found in a pool of his own blood and vomiting and was on the verge of life and death, after which he fell into rehab. He completed a rehabilitation course and began to go in for sports..

"It was a lesson for me. Then I was reborn, "- said the star, but it is this past that he said helped him get into the role of his hero in the film" Venom ".

Now, the actor has been sober for over ten years.. He is an exemplary husband and father who, with his wife Charlotte Riley, awaits the birth of her second child..