HARRY POTTER star Daniel Radcliffe has become teetotal after admitting that alcohol cast a nasty spell on him.
The adolescent years Radcliffe spent playing the bespectacled boy wizard were replaced by nights of hard drinking, with whisky his potion of choice.
Radcliffe said his life went off the rails when he turned 18 and was filming Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince.
He is now approaching the first anniversary of his departure from the demon drink, which came after two years of partying and shortly after he finished filming the final Potter film.
Radcliffe, now 21, said: "I became so reliant on (alcohol) to enjoy stuff.
Relationship "There were a few years there when I was just so enamoured with the idea of living some sort of famous person's lifestyle that really isn't suited to me."
The actor, who was only 11 when he first took on the role of the boy wizard, admitted he chose to skip the most recent Potter premiere party in favour of "watching the Discovery Channel with a bowl of Sugar Puffs".
He added: "I'm actually enjoying the fact I can have a relationship with my girlfriend where I'm really pleasant and I'm not f***ing up totally all the time."
He told GQ magazine: "As much as I would love to be a person that goes to parties and has a couple of drinks and has a nice time, that doesn't work for me. I do that very unsuccessfully.
"I'd just rather sit at home and read, or talk to somebody that makes me laugh. There's no shame in enjoying the quiet life."
Radcliffe's life philosophy means he may have trouble spending his s48million fortune.
He said: "I don't know what to do with it. I'm very fortunate to have it and it gives you room to manoeuvre. But the main thing about having money is it means you don't have to worry about it.
"And that for me is a lovely thing. It's not for fast cars and hookers."
Despite the last instalment in the franchise, Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part II, being released this month, Radcliffe said he feels no regrets.
And he said he was on a "personal crusade" to prove child stars do not have to burn out.
Radcliffe - who is starring on Broadway in the farce How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying - said: "If I can do it, in the biggest film franchise of all time, no other child actor who comes after will ever have to answer those same bloody questions."
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