Tom Hardy, who starred in Peaky Blinders, said that after turning to drugs and crime, he “f****d” everything up.

The sixth season of the BBC crime drama’s sixth season, which debuted on February 27, has the Peaky Blinders actor, 44, reprising his role as Alfie Solomons. Although the actor has had several Oscar nominations and has secured big parts in films like The Dark Knight Rises, Dunkirk, and Venom, things haven’t always gone well for him.

In 2003, the Peaky Blinders star entered a rehab facility.

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After realizing he might “destroy everything” if he drank too much, he began the trek to recovery.

The Mad Max actor said, “If I had four pints of lager and half a bottle of vodka I could turn this room into an absolute (expletive) nightmare in about three minutes,” while speaking with Mirror in 2017.

“I could destroy everything in my life I have worked so hard for,” he shared.

“It’s the suburbs, the life is so privileged and peaceful and so bloody dull, it gives you the instinctive desire to want to (expletive) everything up,” he stated.

Tom acknowledged that despite having a “privileged and peaceful” upbringing in South West London, he had to “endanger himself.”

“I got arrested at 15 for joyriding in a stolen Mercedes. And for good measure there was a gun in the car,’ he remarked.

“I just had to endanger myself – it was a kind of self-harming.”

After being noticed in theater school, the renowned actor had his big break in Steven Spielberg’s 2001 TV series Band Of Brothers. But he was also struggling with a severe drug addiction.

He states: “I would have sold my mother for a rock of crack . . . The police would come, people would beat me up, but it never killed me so I was like, ‘All right, what else you got?’”

In an interview with Richard Arnold from Good Morning Britain for his part in Venom in 2018, he stated: “For me obviously I am a bog standard alcoholic, for my whole life, in recovery as it were.”

The actor said in a 2014 interview with the Mirror that when he was 11 years old, police officers visited his school and spoke to his pupils about the risks of sniffing glue. However, he claimed to have thought, “I know where to find that now – bang.”

He described hallucinogens as “fun and games” at the time, but by the age of 13, he had gone off the rails and was eluding the police. After being dismissed from Reed’s in Surrey for stealing, he fell into an alcohol and crack cocaine addiction that would rule his life until his mid-twenties.

Hardy allegedly told Digital Spy that he made the decision to enter rehab after finding himself in a pool of blood and vomit upon awakening.

“I did something particularly heinous that allowed me to wake up,” he remarks. “I had to lose something. Sometimes you have to lose something that is worth more to you than your drinking.”

Hardy considered remaining in recovery for a time before leaving to resume drinking. But after talking to others in comparable circumstances, he saw that he had a problem. Since going to rehab, he has maintained his sobriety, but he has said that he fears that one poor choice may end everything.

He told Contactmusic, “I love what I do, but it’s driven by a fear of not being able to do it.” “It’s the same with drinking – if I stop then who am I? What have I got? I have to watch that drive.”