"Harry Potter" drank more than just Butterbeer! -- Lead actor of the film franchise, Daniel Radcliffe, recently confessed that he turned to alcohol in order to cope with the sudden life changes after the "Deathly Hallows: Part 2" movie, leaving the film set he had grown up in.
"I was pretty inconsolable on the last day of 'Potter' ... I was worried," Daniel Radcliffe said in an interview in Maron's WTF podcast. "I was living alone, and I think I was really freaked out. I drank a lot,"
The British actor said drinking became his coping mechanism from his fear of finally living life as "Daniel Radcliffe" and not as "Harry Potter."
Daniel Radcliffe took on the role as "Harry Potter" based on the phenomenal book series by J.K. Rowling, when he was 10 years old.
According to ABC News, Daniel Radcliffe feared the end of the "Harry Potter" movies because "he absolutely loved being on film sets and that is what scared him the most - he might not get to pursue his passion anymore."
"There was definitely a time when I was coming out of 'Potter' into the real world and suddenly I was in a world when I was not in that consistency anymore," said Radcliffe, who worked on the film set for 10 years.
"I think it was more to do with going out in public and having a battle within me of thinking 'no, I can have a totally normal life.' You get bored of waking up like that," the actor added.
But the end of the J.K. Rowling film adaptation was not the end of Daniel Radcliffe's career.
Outside of the film franchise, Radcliffe got to work on other movie projects - his most recent include, "Victor Frankenstein" and next year, "Now You See Me 2."
"I was very lucky that people gave me opportunities, directly after 'Harry Potter' finished, to play more grown-up stuff, because I could have been geeting teen offer type stuff," Radcliffe told Us Weekly.
After "Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows: Part 2" in 2011, Daniel Radcliffe had starred in "The Woman in Black (2012)," "Kill Your Darlings (2013)," "Horns (2014)" and "What If (2014)."
He was also in the Broadway musical "How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying."
