Tom Felton

2022 - 10 - 20

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Harry Potter's Tom Felton Shares What “Clicked” for Him After He ... (E! Online)

Tom Felton reflected on what he learned after he escaped rehab during his battle with addiction. Learn about what “clicked” for him after fleeing the ...

"I was furious at the time," Tom noted in the Oct. "It came to the point where I would think nothing of having a drink while I was working. It was the symptom." He added, "I started screaming at God, at the sky, at everyone and no one, full of fury for what had happened to me, for the situation in which I found myself. "All of a sudden, the frustration burst out of me," he wrote. "A lot clicked when I managed to get down to the water," he said.

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Tom Felton went to rehab for alcohol abuse three times amid mental ... (Crow River Media)

The 'Harry Potter' actor - who played Draco Malfoy in the big screen adaptations of J.K. Rowling's novels - turned to drink "to escape" in his mid-20s as he ...

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Tom Felton Made Fun of 9-Year-Old Emma Watson on 'Harry Potter ... (Variety)

Tom Felton laughed at Emma Watson's dance moves on the "Harry Potter" set. He call it a "a stupid, teenage act of thoughtlessness."

“And that’s why I’m glad that our friendship did not founder on the rocks of my insensitivity, but became something deeper. I did feel like a bit of a dick, and rightly so.” [Tom Felton](https://variety.com/t/tom-felton/) revealed in his new memoir, “Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard,” that he still feels “ashamed” for mocking co-star [Emma Watson](https://variety.com/t/emma-watson/)’s dance moves on the set of the “ [Harry Potter](https://variety.com/t/harry-potter/)” movies.

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Harry Potter star Tom Felton opens up about his rehab stints ... (cosmopolitan.com)

Harry Potter actor Tom Felton has opened up about his alcoholism and rehab stays in a new memoir, saying that Emma Watson encouraged him to write about ...

That man's comment about being 'rich', Tom says, has long stuck with him too – and luckily, after experiencing a few different rehab programmes, he found one that clicked and set him on the path to recovery. Along the way, Tom recalls that he stopped into a petrol station, where a man handed him $20 and a bottle of water, and asked him to consider whether or not he was really a "rich man" in his life. When writing about his alcoholism in his new memoir, Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard, Tom said it reached the point where drinking - which began as an escape for him - started to interfere with his work. This happened, and this is part of my life'." "It wouldn't really seem right just to talk about all the fluffy stuff. After encouragement, I was given a bit more confidence in myself to go, 'You know what?

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Emma Watson Addresses Decades-Long Relationship Speculation ... (E! Online)

Want to know where Harry Potter co-stars Emma Watson and Tom Felton really stand? No need to wave a magic wand. Scroll on to see how she summarizes their ...

"I've always had a secret love for Emma, though not perhaps in the way that people might want to hear," he wrote. In fact, Watson admitted in the book that their "relationship didn't start well." "Like Tom, I always struggle to explain to people the nature of our connection and relationship," she wrote. [For the latest breaking news updates, click here to download the E! While the actors have tried to [sum up their tight bond before](https://www.eonline.com/news/1276658/harry-potters-tom-felton-has-a-surprising-response-to-emma-watson-romance-rumors), Watson provided further insight in the foreword of Felton's new memoir Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard. I know we always will."

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Tom Felton Is 'Ashamed' of Mocking Emma Watson on First 'Harry ... (IndieWire)

Tom Felton and Emma Watson are close friends as adults, but the "Harry Potter" alum revealed it "did not start well" on set.

Felton admitted that Watson had the “most to deal with” coming of age in the franchise. “She was in many ways treated like an adult from the day she was cast. Why is it so painful for me to recall?” “The pressures she experienced went further than just having to deal with stupid boys,” Felton said. “We were just being shitty boys, largely out of awkwardness and because we thought taking the piss was cool, but Emma was visibly upset by our thoughtless reaction. Felton was 12 years old when he was cast as Draco Malfoy in the franchise, and admitted that his relationship with then 9-year-old Watson at first involved mocking her.

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'Harry Potter' star Tom Felton details past struggle with alcoholism in ... (CNN)

The actor, who is most known for his portrayal of antagonist Draco Malfoy in the “Harry Potter” film franchise, discusses in his new memoir “Beyond the Wand: ...

I am no longer shy of putting my hands up and saying: I’m not okay,” he wrote. “Just as we all experience physical ill-health at some stage in our lives, so we all experience mental ill-health too. All I want to tell you is that this is the seventeenth intervention I’ve been to in my career. Don’t be the twelfth.’” The problem was deeper,” he added. “My lawyer, whom I’d barely ever met face to face, spoke with quiet honesty,” Felton wrote.

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Tom Felton Explores Struggles With Fame, Friendships With 'H.P. ... (Shondaland.com)

The “Harry Potter” actor reveals to Shondaland how Emma Watson inspired him to write his new book, what lessons he learned from volunteering on Venice Beach ...

My dad gave me a great quality, which is buffoonery; the moment that you can make a buffoon out of yourself, it relaxes everyone else’s energy, and then in turn, the acting or the quality of the scene gets better because people aren’t quite so worried. I know people who are like, “I really love the idea of being a writer.” They love the idea of being [something], but they don’t actually do it. It wasn’t so much Los Angeles or the trappings of fame that were steering me in the wrong direction; I think it was more a case of reminding yourself what makes you personally happy. Literally, it was just a burrito and a bottle of water; it wasn’t like we were changing lives. But mostly, it was a hint of envy because he was a bloody good actor, and he got really good quickly. Just try to please yourself; be selfish, in a nice way of the word, if that makes sense. Lots of times, I was brought in to the studio even when I wasn’t filming, just to get my hair done. Not only do I look a little bit different from Draco because of the hair color and more sun in the skin, it’s also a character that is so against Tom. I’m a bit of a writer, I always have been, and this is the culmination of years of scribbling down bits and pieces of notes. press — this must’ve been for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban — someone said, “How are you ever going to shake the burden of being known as Draco Malfoy for the rest of your life?” It wasn’t a burden then, and it hasn’t been since. Yet, as Tom Felton shares in his new memoir, Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard, his reaction to the audition for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone was less than exuberant. He writes openly of his struggles with addiction and depression and says that while he found the act of writing about his experiences to be cathartic, he never expected anyone else to read about them.

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5 reasons why Harry Potter's Emma Watson and Tom Felton are ... (South China Morning Post)

Dramione fans have always wanted the close friendship between Harry Potter's Emma Watson and Tom Felton to develop into something more … so does Felton's ...

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Tom Felton opens up about going to rehab amid alcohol abuse ... (PopBuzz)

The Harry Potter actor opened up about his experience with rehab and alcohol abuse in his new memoir, Beyond The Wand, prompted by friend and former co-star ...

But the very fact that I was able to admit to myself that I needed some help — and I was going to do something about it — was an important moment. "I can honestly say it was one of the hardest decisions I ever had to make. All I want to tell you is that this is the seventeenth intervention I've been to in my career. I am no longer shy of putting my hands up and saying: I'm not okay." Following the intervention, Tom went to rehab but left less than 24 hours after checking in. "Everybody in the room had written me a letter," he wrote. Don't be the twelfth." "Drinking becomes a habit at the best of times," Tom continued. The problem was deeper," Tom wrote. I was in no state to hear them." The habit spilled out of the bar and, from time to time, on to set. It was the symptom.

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“Harry Potter” Star Tom Felton Got Real About Dealing With ... (BuzzFeed)

“Harry Potter” Star Tom Felton Got Real About Dealing With Substance Abuse And Attempting To Walk Home From Rehab ... "I went from being not particularly ...

"I can honestly say it was one of the hardest decisions I ever had to make. Tom ended up checking into a $ 40,000-a-month rehab facility in Malibu — but he was there for less than 24 hours. "I went from being not particularly interested to regularly having a few pints a day before the sun had even gone down, and a shot of whiskey to go with each of them," he wrote, adding that he was "drinking to escape a situation."

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Tom Felton Mistook Gary Oldman for a Janitor on 'Harry Potter and ... (IndieWire)

Academy Award winner Gary Oldman was believed to be a janitor by co-star Tom Felton on "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" set.

“I cringed with embarrassment when I realized I’d mistaken him for the cleaner,” Felton wrote. “Bit weird, for one of the cleaning staff. “I was on set one day when I saw another slightly scruffy older bloke wearing an old pair of jeans and a T-shirt,” Felton continued. I had a horrible feeling I might have made a faux pas, so when he’d left I asked someone, ‘Who is that?'” “I’d occasionally seen him around and I thought he was one of the cleaning staff. [Harry Potter](https://www.indiewire.com/t/harry-potter/)” alum admitted to assuming Oscar-winning co-star [Gary Oldman](https://www.indiewire.com/t/gary-oldman/) was a janitor while on set for 2004’s “ [Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban](https://www.indiewire.com/t/harry-potter-and-the-prisoner-of-azkaban/).” Felton wrote in his memoir “Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard” that Oldman was so “unassuming and down-to-earth” that it was easy to confuse him with being a member of the cleaning staff.

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Tom Felton says Ralph Fiennes improvised creepy Voldemort hug in ... (The A.V. Club)

In Tom Felton's new memoir, he recalls the moment Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) went in for the embrace in Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2.

It gave me goosebumps then, and the memory gives me goosebumps now.” It was the slightest movement, but enough to stop me in my tracks and think: is he trying to hug me?” There was something so very twisted about that moment, something so wrong about watching Voldemort’s warped display of affection, that I could sense everybody around me holding their breath uncomfortably.” It’s chilling in the context of the film, but American audiences found it “absolutely hilarious,” Felton writes in his new [memoir](https://www.avclub.com/daniel-radcliffe-cameron-diaz-harry-potter-1849672884?_ga=2.161466365.1966672911.1666014527-1488648406.1652714420) Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard (per [Insider](https://www.insider.com/harry-potter-ralph-fiennes-improvised-voldemort-draco-hug-last-movie-2022-10)). “That was one take out of 50,” Felton writes. Sometimes he would break off his monologue and tell me to go back,” Felton explains in the book.

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Tom Felton's Most Surprising 'Harry Potter' Memories Feature Gary ... (Vanity Fair)

In his newly released memoir, Felton details his “jealousy” over Oldman's bond with Radcliffe and the time he mistook the Oscar winner for a member of the ...

[had](https://www.insider.com/harry-potter-ralph-fiennes-improvised-voldemort-draco-hug-last-movie-2022-10) a “weighty presence” on set. He was unassuming and down-to-earth, likely to be seen making a cup of tea for everyone, rather than playing the room.” Who better to have on your side in that respect than Gary Oldman?” “I’d occasionally seen him around and I thought he was one of the cleaning staff. “I was on set one day when I saw another slightly scruffy older bloke wearing an old pair of jeans and a T-shirt,” Felton writes, as reported by Coverage of the franchise’s leading trio—Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint—has been unyielding, making Felton’s insights on the supporting players the most illuminating.

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'Harry Potter' star Tom Felton details past struggles with alcohol ... (NME.com)

The actor, who portrayed Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter film series, revealed that he began “drinking to escape” and spent much of his 20s in bars, noting ...

He later entered a rehab facility in Malibu, California, where the actor was asked if he wanted to use an alias to hide his identity. He continued: “I’m no longer shy of putting my hands up and saying: I’m not okay. And part of the reason that I took the decision to write these pages is the hope that by sharing my experiences, I might be able to help someone else who is struggling.” All I want to tell you is that this is the seventeenth intervention I’ve been to in my career. He continued: “It came to the point where I would think nothing of having a drink while I was working. I was in no state to hear them.”

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Harry Potter actor Emma Watson finds 'soul mate' in co-star Tom Felton (7NEWS.com.au)

Despite ongoing relationship rumours, the two have once again confirmed that their “secret love” is “not perhaps in the way that people might want to hear”.

That person who is somehow a witness to all that unfolds?” Watson wrote. “Tom was the one I could be more vulnerable with,” Watson said, while Felton added he has “always had a soft spot for her and that continues to the day”. In a separate part of the foreword, Watson said Felton was her “person” - the one who knew her best of anyone, according to Entertainment Tonight. [Emma Watson](https://7news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity) has revealed she and [Harry Potter](https://7news.com.au/entertainment/movies) co-star Tom Felton have “loved each other in a special way”, referring to him as her “soulmate” and the person who knows her best. [relationship](https://7news.com.au/lifestyle/relationships) rumours, the two have once again confirmed that their “secret love” is “not perhaps in the way that people might want to hear”. In an excerpt from the foreword, Watson joked she had “lost count of the times that people have said to me, ‘You must have drunkenly made out, just once!’ ‘You must have kissed!’ ‘There must be something!’”

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Tom Felton Reflects On Awkward First Encounter With 'Harry Potter ... (Hit 107)

Tom Felton, the actor who brought the delightfully hateable Draco Malfoy to life, has revealed how he narrowly dodged the embarrassment of misidentifying one of ...

“I cringed with embarrassement when I realised I’d mistaken him for the cleaner… in the end, I took the easier route of totally ignoring my mistake and pretending I’d known who he was all along,” he revealed. “I’d occassionally seen him around and I thought he was one of the cleaning staff.”

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A masturbating baboon and a 'giggling fine': 10 things we learnt from ... (Mamamia)

10 things we learnt from Tom Felton's memoir Beyond The Wand, from his relationship with Emma Watson to his time in rehab.

He did not succeed, and a headshot was plastered on the wall of the store. And while I like to think Draco and I were not exactly alike, there was surely something about my general nonchalance that caught the eye." He said he was terrified that someone would find out about this and he would be fired as Draco. With Daniel, Rupert and Emma, they nailed it. They pretty much are - or at least they were - Harry, Ron and Hermione. Felton said he approached the Harry Potter auditions with his "usual lack of overt enthusiasm", saying he "bullsh*tted" his way through an instance where director Chris Columbus asked what he was most looking forward to seeing in the films.

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Harry Potter fans gush over Emma Watson's relationship with ... (The Independent)

In Felton's new memoir Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard, Watson provided further insight into her relationship with her co-star. “ ...

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Harry Potter fans gush over Emma Watson's relationship with ... (Yahoo News)

In Felton's new memoir Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard, Watson provided further insight into her relationship with her co-star. “ ...

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