Los Angeles, March 3 – Actor Daniel Radcliffe once had a very unhealthy lifestyle in his youth. The actor shared that he used to "live on coffee and cigarettes all day" before quitting smoking.
The actor says he is now "very focused" on fitness, according to the 'People' magazine.
He told WSJ Magazine, "I do weight training, circuit training, and cardio. I don't look like someone who is obsessed with fitness, but I am very dedicated. I feel like I'm a cliché of a former alcoholic or anyone who had an addictive personality and then turned that addiction into going to the gym."
The actor, who stars alongside Tracy Morgan in the new NBC comedy "The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins," first shared his sobriety in 2012, later describing alcohol as "the easiest way to escape self-consciousness."
As he told WSJ.Magazine, "I used to live on coffee and cigarettes all day, and then I quit smoking. Now I just live on coffee all day."
He is also an early riser, thanks to his two-year-old son, whom he shares with longtime girlfriend Erin Darke. (He and Darke have not publicly revealed their son's name).
He said, "I have a young child, so my body has trained to wake up around 5:30. My son has a nightlight where you can program it to change color at a certain time, so at 6:30 it will turn from blue to yellow, and I'll hear him screaming, 'It's yellow, COME GET ME'."
According to 'People', although he has been open about his past struggles with alcohol, Radcliffe, along with his fellow Harry Potter stars, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson, have largely avoided the public scandals that plague other child stars.
While people will look to "the Harry Potter kids in general as being a good example of, 'See, it can all be fine', and yes it can be. He said, "We all worked really hard on ourselves to make it fine. I honestly wouldn't want my son to act or to become famous. I'm also very aware of how tricky it can be, I think it's very different growing up on a Harry Potter set in the U.K. The (same) crew was mostly there for 10 years, so we were surrounded by a group of people that really cared about us. I was also really lucky with my parents. They had the right balance of being like, This is all really special and really cool, but also there's some stuff about this that is really weird”.