With the final installment of the outstanding Harry Potter series set to be released in Hollywood this week, actor Daniel Radcliffe is making the rounds at press junkets. As a counselor for alcoholism and for both in classroom and online alcohol awareness classes, Harry Potter is big news.
Harry Potter Gives Up Booze
No the mead at Hogwarts has not been spiked, and no Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley are not playing quarters in the dining hall. It is Radcliffe, the actor who plays the flamboyant wizard, Harry Potter, making alcohol awareness news.
Radcliffe has come out as saying he has given up alcohol. Radcliffe admits that he had a serious dependency on alcohol and was a hard partyer.
Radcliffe said he has been sober since last August. In an interview with GQ magazine he admitted, “I became so reliant on alcohol to enjoy stuff,’ .
“There were a few years there when I was just so enamored with the idea of living some sort of famous person’s lifestyle that really isn’t suited to me.
“I’m actually enjoying the fact I can have a relationship with my girlfriend where I’m really pleasant, and I’m not ****ing up totally all the time.
“As much as I would love to be a person that goes to parties and has a couple of drinks and has a nice time, that doesn’t work for me.’
It is fair to say his confession has raised eyebrows with some of his friends back home in London.
It is certainly true that he did develop a taste for whisky sours, tequila and bourbon on nights out with his tight-knit group of chums. Well if Harry