{"id":23480,"date":"2021-08-09T12:31:27","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T12:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/got-star-kit-harington-opens-up-about-his-struggle-with-mental-health\/"},"modified":"2021-08-09T12:31:27","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T12:31:27","slug":"got-star-kit-harington-opens-up-about-his-struggle-with-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/?p=23480","title":{"rendered":"GoT star Kit Harington opens up about his struggle with mental health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Game of Thrones s<\/em>tar Kit Harington opened up about his struggle with mental health and alcoholism in a recent interview with <em>The Sunday Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Kit popularly recognized as Jon Snow shared that traumatic things have happened to him since the show ended.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThings that have happened to me since <em>Thrones<\/em> ended, and that were happening during <em>Thrones<\/em>, were of a pretty traumatic nature and they did include alcohol,\u201d he shared.<\/p>\n<p>The actor who has been sober for two years spoke about seeking help at a Connecticut treatment facility after going through \u201csome pretty horrible stuff\u201d following <em>Games of Thrones\u2019<\/em> conclusion in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou get to a place where you feel like you are a bad person, you feel like you are a shameful person. And you feel that there\u2019s no way out, that\u2019s just who you are. And getting sober is the process of going, \u2018No, I can change,\u2019\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>When asked by the publication if he had felt suicidal during this time, the actor replied, yes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will give you an answer to that question: the answer is yes. Yes, of course. I went through periods of real depression where I wanted to do all sorts of things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload_inited aligncenter wp-image-76389 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/images\/2021\/08\/FotoJet-2021-08-09T052006.117.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The star hopes that by being open about his depression and alcoholism, he might be able to help someone, somewhere. \u201cI definitely don\u2019t want to be seen as a martyr or special. I\u2019ve been through something, it\u2019s my stuff. If it helps someone, that\u2019s good.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kit Harington says he felt suicidal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[578],"class_list":["post-23480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrity","tag-game-of-thronesjon-snowkit-harington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}