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Josh Peck is opening up.
In a new interview with People, the 35-year-old How I Met Your Father star discussed his time in the entertainment industry, as well as his struggles with drug addiction.
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“I don’t even watch my new stuff,” he told the outlet, adding, “I don’t watch anything!”
He went on to bring up his public weight struggle and a years-long drug addiction, which he addressed for the first time in his new memoir, Happy People Are Annoying.
“I was always looking for something outside to fix my insides,” Josh said. The actor has been sober since 2008. “But eventually I realized that whether my life was beyond my wildest dreams or a total mess, it didn’t change the temperature of what was going on in my mind. I knew that nothing in the outside world would make me feel whole.”
Recalling his early days performing standing and appearing on Drake & Josh, he continued: “I spent most of my life dying to be typical but I grew up with a single mom, I was overweight and I was a musical theater kid who really had no social status. Comedy was my natural defense mechanism.”
After his dramatic weight loss, where he dropped 127 pounds with 18 months of diet and exercise, Josh realized his self-confidence hadn’t changed.
“It became clear that once I lost the weight that I was the same head in a new body,” he said. “What is really clear is that I overdo things. And then I discovered drugs and alcohol. And that became my next chapter. I used food and drugs to numb my feelings.”
“It was really a buffet,” the Turner & Hooch star of his addiction. “I had this illusion of becoming more confident and attractive when I was partaking. I was trying to quiet that voice that woke me up every morning and told me
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Drake & Josh star Josh Peck has opened up about the height of his addiction to drugs and alcohol.The 35 year old American actor soared to fame as a child star on the hit Nickelodeon comedy series but unfortunately faced a lot of insecurities that stemmed from the constant body shaming he was subjected to. And Drake has now explained that he lost weight and adopted a healthier lifestyle after changing his eating habits and getting a personal trainer - but that still didn't change his mindset. "It became clear that once I lost the weight that I was the same head in a new body," he candidly explained to People.
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Josh Peck is opening up about his previous addiction to drugs and alcohol and his struggle with weight.