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May 17, 2021 – In Ryan Murphy’s new Netflix series “Halston”, Ewan McGregor plays the late American fashion designer Roy Halston who became the face of an international brand but almost lost it all with a spiralling addiction to drug and alcohol. Having gotten sober years ago, McGregor says he’s more than familiar with Halston’s struggles.

“I understand it, addiction. And I’m not judgmental about it, you know? Because I’ve walked that path for so many years, and it’s very cunning and you will absolutely live in denial, you know? People can’t see it,” the 50-year-old actor explains during an interview with “CBS Sunday Morning”. McGregor has been sober for almost two decades now and has been open about his past struggle with alcohol, previously admitting, “Originally I was a happy drunk. But later I was miserable because it’s a depressant. I was just ashamed of myself, really.”

It’s that past addiction, the actor says, that he was able to tap into to play the fashion designer in “Halston”.

“So, there’s Halston going to Studio 54 every night and doing coke and his business is in terrible trouble,” he says. “And yet he still goes, ‘I don’t have a problem. I could stop any time I like, you know?’ I understand that, yeah.”

Now, with so many years of sobriety under his belt, McGregor is at a point where he can admit he feels “pretty good” about being famous.

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