Mad Max: Fury Road star Tom Hardy has spoken about his past struggles with drug abuse.
In an interview with Essentials magazine (promoted by Yahoo!) while promoting the new movie, he said: "I was a shameful suburban statistic.
"I was told very clearly, 'You go down that road, Tom, you won't come back. That's it. All you need to know'. That message stayed with me clearly for the rest of my days.
"I am...lucky to be here."
Speaking at the 68th annual Cannes Film Festival, he said that his drug habit was so bad that "I would have sold my mother for a rock of crack".
The Dark Knight Rises and Bronson star, who married Charlotte Riley last year, added: "People didn't sit up and take any notice of me until I started putting on weight, kicking people, and being aggressive!
"The trouble with Hollywood is that they want you to be something, then they think you're who they wanted you to be. I'm not a fighter. I'm a petite little bourgeois boy from London."
Mad Max: Fury Road is in cinemas now.
Nicholas Hoult, Zoe Kravitz, George Miller, Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy (R)
