Game of Thrones star Rose Leslie opens up on how she and her husband Kit Harington have dealt with his past addiction

Recreation of Thrones star, Rose Leslie has spoken about how she and her co-star husband, Package Harington dealt together with his previous dependancy. 

In the duvet story for Harper’s Bazaar UK’s June 2022 concern, Leslie mentioned she is “doing properly,” noting that Harington, 35, suffered from dependancy in 2019, “so we’re now a number of years into his sobriety.”

The Good Battle alum mentioned; 

“For Package, being an addict, it is essential for him to recognise himself as such.

“The AA group has supplied such a loving house for him to really feel heard, to verify he is not alone. But when it weren’t for rehab, he can be in a really totally different headspace proper now.

 “I’ve learnt loads about dependancy and it is one thing Package is perpetually going to pay attention to, nevertheless it’s on him whether or not he chooses to drink once more. No quantity of nannying goes to have the ability to cease him from doing what he decides to do… I do not select to place that stress on myself. The duty of his behaviour is on him. It isn’t on me to protect him from it.”

Harrington first opened up about his battle with dependancy in August, telling The Sunday Occasions that he “went by way of some fairly horrible stuff” after Recreation of Thrones resulted in 2019.

He mentioned on the time; 

“Issues which have occurred to me since Thrones ended, and that have been taking place throughout Thrones, have been of a reasonably traumatic nature and so they did embrace alcohol.

“You get to a spot the place you’re feeling like you’re a dangerous particular person, you’re feeling like you’re a shameful particular person. And you are feeling that there is no means out, that is simply who you might be. And getting sober is the method of going, ‘No, I can change.’ 

“One in all my favorite issues I learnt lately is that the expression ‘a leopard would not change its spots’ is totally false: {that a} leopard really does change its spots. I simply assume that is probably the most stunning factor. It actually helped. That was one thing I sort of clung to; the concept I may make this large basic change in who I used to be and the way I went about my life.”

He beforehand checked into the Privé-Swiss retreat in Connecticut again in Might 2019, stating that he was handled for “primarily alcohol” throughout his keep. “Package has determined to make the most of this break in his schedule as a chance to spend a while at a wellness retreat to work on some private points,” Harington’s rep advised PEOPLE on the time.