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GOT's Rose Leslie Says Guarding Husband Kit Harington From Past Addiction Is 'Not On Me'

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Rose Leslie and Kit Harington, who met on the set of their hit eight-time Emmy-winning series Game of Thrones and married in Scotland in 2018, welcomed their first child together - a baby boy - last February.

In a new interview Harper's Bazaar, 35-year-old Leslie has opened up about her husband's previous addiction issues, noting: 'For Kit, being an addict, it's very important for him to recognise himself as such.

'The AA community has provided such a loving space for him to feel heard, to make sure he's not alone. But if it weren't for rehab, he would be in a very different headspace right now.'

The Good Fight alumni clarified that she and her partner are 'doing well' now. 'We're now several years into his sobriety,' she said in relation to Harrington having suffered with addiction in 2019.

Leslie went on to admit that she won't be monitoring Harington's behaviour in this regard, and noted that she is well aware of the uncertainties of dealing with addiction as a couple, even after a long period of sobriety.

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'I've learnt a lot about addiction and it's something Kit is forever going to be aware of, but it's on him whether he chooses to drink again,' she said.

'No amount of nannying is going to be able to stop him from doing what he decides to do... I don't choose to put that pressure on myself. The responsibility of his behaviour is on him. It's not on me to guard him from it.'

When previously opening up about his addiction, Harington said: 'I will say about my addictions that I kept them very, very quiet and I was incredibly secretive and incredibly locked up with them. So they came as quite a surprise to the people around me.'

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Speaking about addition he told Access: 'I went through some pretty horrible stuff', which he says 'were of a pretty traumatic nature and they did include alcohol'.

Harington, who spoke of the stresses addiction causes close ones, continued: 'You get to a place where you feel like you are a bad person, you feel like you are a shameful person. And you feel that there's no way out, that's just who you are. And getting sober is the process of going, "No, I can change."'

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Harington checked into Connecticut Privé-Swiss retreat for 'mainly alcohol' in 2019.

As for what life currently looks like for Leslie and Harington, they recently bought a second home in Suffolk for their family of three.

When previously speaking about how life has changed since they became a trio, Harington said: 'Everyone goes, "Look, it's big. What you're about to go through is big." And you have no way of knowing that until it happens.'

He later gushed about his family's 'new dynamic', saying it's 'beautiful'.

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