Kit Harington feels "lucky" to have kicked his addiction issues before becoming a father because he "hated himself" when he was drinking

He told GQ Hype: "I was so lucky I got sober before having kids ... The very fact that I can be proud of it [being sober] is an achievement. Because before getting sober, I would stare in the mirror and call myself a c***. I'd hate myself. I would literally despise myself and not be proud of anything I'd done. I couldn't be proud. So the fact that I am proud of getting sober is in and of itself a mark of being an entirely different person ... "

Kit and Rose married in Scotland in 2018 - seven years after meeting on the set of the hit fantasy drama - and they are now parents to a three-year-old son and a 12-month-old daughter.

He went on to insist parenting has changed him a lot because it's forced him to become less "self-centred".

Kit explained: "I say this with love for myself - I'm quite self-centred. I think I'm a generous person and a loving person [too].

"But with kids, you just don't get to be self-centred. They strip you of it. And that's an amazing gift. [Kids] are ultimately completely self-centred. They don't think about anyone else but themselves.

"So your self-centredness just has to park itself. And I think it's the great thing about parenting. At the heart of it, it's the most selfless thing you can do."