Young actor Daniel Radcliffe reveals that he often played the famous and most loved character Harry Potter drunk.

The actor who is promoting his new horror film "The Woman in Black" has said that he went to work on the set while drunk. The 22-year-old told Heat magazine that he took alcohol to cope with the pressure of stardom at such a young age. He was only 11 when cast to play the central character in "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone."

"I went into work still drunk," he told the magazine. "I can point to many scenes where I'm just gone. Dead behind the eyes. I have a very addictive personality. It was a problem," the actor further shared.

However, Radcliffe stressed that he did not drink at work. "I can honestly say I never drank at work on Harry Potter. I went into work still drunk, but I never drank at work," he said. Radcliffe, who quit drinking when he was 21, told Britain's Shortlist magazine his heavy drinking was affecting his social life.

"I was living in constant fear of who I'd meet, what I might have said to them, what I might have done with them, so I'd stay in my apartment for days and drink alone," he said.

"I was a recluse at 20. It was pathetic. It wasn't me. I'm a fun, polite person and it turned me into a rude bore," Radcliffe further shared.

The young star said that blacking out became his thing and he could not remember his couple of fun drunken nights out. Radcliffe also said that when people told him that he had a problem, it was only when he acknowledged it that he was able to stop drinking. Now that he is sober, he enjoyed being smug about it.

"People with problems like that are very adept at hiding it. It was bad. I drank a lot and it was nightly," Radcliffe added. The actor said that he no longer drinks. "You either have to change something or give into that shame," he said.