Appearing on The Late Late Show, Colin Farrell opened up about his hard-partying past.

The actor had battled his addiction problems long before he became famous. After filming Miami Vice he decided to go to a rehab. “Miami Vice wrapped…and I was put on a plane and sent to rehab,” he revealed, adding that it was his family who convinced him to seek help.

”I’d gotten out of control – for years I could indulge in certain things … I had quite a high tolerance for various drugs for years, I thought. It accumulated to the point where I couldn’t put my foot on the brake anymore,” he said.

This isn’t the first time Farrell has opened up about his drug and alcohol abuse. “I began to come out of the haze that I was in and had burrowed myself into so deeply,” the actor said back in 2008. “Basically, I’d been fairly drunk or high since I was 14. I was very drunk and high for 16 years, so it was a tough life change, and I was dying. I’m one of the lucky ones.”

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