Kit Harington Reveals 6-Week Rehab Stay After 2019 Game of Thrones Finale Launch
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Updated · E! NEWS · Jun 5
Kit Harington Reveals 6-Week Rehab Stay After 2019 Game of Thrones Finale Launch
3 articles · Updated · E! NEWS · Jun 5
Summary
Six weeks in rehab kept Kit Harington isolated without his phone just as Game of Thrones season eight began airing in 2019, he said in Variety’s Actors on Actors conversation with Peter Dinklage.
Harington said he checked himself in to get sober and "get my head on straight," adding the timing was coincidental even though skipping the show’s press tour became "a real relief."
A year away from acting followed as he tried to reset after playing Jon Snow through all eight seasons, though the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted his planned return to work.
Harington said the break ultimately helped him decide whether he still loved acting and recognize that he had drawn too heavily from pain in the role, rather than from both joy and pain.