Oscar winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman just left a detox program that he checked into to stop a drug problem. He’s doing well and has already left the U.S. to make another film.
TMZ reports that the Master actor had dealt with his substance abuse 23 years ago, but the problem came back recently. He told the site that he had started taking prescription medication and that escalated to snorting heroin.
He had been using heroin for a week before he went to a detox facility on the East Coast, he said. It took him 10 days and he left last Friday. While speaking with TMZ, Hoffman said that “a great group of friends and family” helped him seek the treatment he needed and thankfully it worked out.
According to USA Today, Hoffman and his wife, costume designer Mimi O'Donnell, have three children - Cooper, 10, Tallulah 6, and Willa, 4.
Hoffman was last seen in Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master, for which he earned an Oscar nomination as Best Supporting Actor. He plays Plutarch Heavensbee in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and also stars in Anton Corbijn’s A Most Wanted Man.
The actor won an Oscar for playing Truman Capote in 2006’s Capote.
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