Farell reveals 'wild youth filled by drink and drugs'

Irish movie star Colin Farrell smoked heroin during a wild adolescence fuelled by drink and drugs, he admitted today.

Farrell, known for his “bad boy” ways, started drinking at 13 and took his first drug, marijuana, at the age of 15, he told GQ magazine.

“I’ve always been good to dip in, and dip in heavy and then get the f*** out. It’s gotten a bit messier than that a couple of times,” he said.

The 28-year-old Alexander the Great star admitted to taking LSD and Ecstasy - sometimes alone at home as a teenager.

Asked about heroin, he said: “I’ve smoked it a couple of times, but I knew where it was going. For some reason it seemed pretty f****** nice at the time.”

But he told the November issue of the magazine that he had a mini-breakdown in front of his mother after visiting a doctor, gave up drugs and alcohol. For a year he did not drink a drop.

Farrell said he was a poor student at school.

“I really didn’t listen a day. I was just so uninterested. I had no grand master plan. I just never studied and didn’t do homework, cheated in exams every chance I got.”

After leaving school, the Dubliner appeared on a day time television show to model Christmas underwear and also auditioned for the boy band Boyzone but was rejected for being tone deaf.

Farrell, the youngest of four children, travelled to Australia in his late teens and admits he needed to clean up his act when he returned.

Farrell, who has a son, now nearly aged one, following a brief fling with model Kim Bordenave, also spoke about his ex-wife Amelia Warner.

“I was madly in love,” he said. “There was a time I thought I’d spend the rest of my life with this girl. That time didn’t last that long, and that was that.” The couple parted after four months of marriage.

Speaking about the controversy over his recent movie, A Home At the End of the World, he said it was “absurd” that a full-frontal nude scene was removed in the final cut.

He also found the experience of kissing a man, Dallas Roberts, in the film, “repulsive”.