The Irish actor revealed in a 2008 interview that he’d struggled with alcohol and substance misuse since he was 14. “I was very drunk or high for about 16 years; it was a tough life change. But I was dying, and I’m one of the lucky ones,” he said.
Colin first entered rehab in 2005, and while he’s been sober since 2006, he checked himself into a rehab facility in 2018 as a “preemptive measure.”







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