Nick Frost feared food obsession would kill him
Nick Frost knew he needed to make changes or his food addiction would "kill" him.
Nick Frost feared his food addiction would "kill" him.
The 53-year-old actor - who has a son, six, and four-year-old daughter with partner Hayley, and a teenage son from a previous relationship - saw his weight balloon to over 490lbs after he gave up drugs and alcohol, but he soon realised that swapping his vices for a dependency on food wasn't a good idea either.
He told The Observer: “Six years ago I stopped taking any kind of drink or mind-bending substance...
“Food had been my first addiction when I was 10.
“And I realised that it’s fine to stop all that s*** [drink and drugs]. But then going in the car and parking down by the river when it was nighttime and eating a tier of a wedding cake, that’s going to f****** kill you, as well.”
Nick - who turned to comfort eating as a child when his sister died from an asthma attack at the age of 18 - realised he needed to make changes.
Discussing his motivation, he said: “Just a realisation that I would die. And a realisation that I had very young children, and this is how I am, and they’re going to be left without a dad. It was like, ‘What the f***are you doing, you nutter?’ "
The How To Train Your Dragon actor admitted he is considering his legacy and how he will be remembered when he dies.
He said: “I hate the word ‘legacy’, but there’s always a part of me that wants to be remembered when I die. That’s why I want to be buried, so I’ve got a little headstone somewhere. I write in the cookbook that the only thing I’ve got of my mum’s was a f****** spoon. That’s it. And I think, ‘I’d want to be more than a spoon.’”
Nick previously explained his compulsive tendencies got worse during his 40s and puts a lot of it down to feelings of loneliness.
He told The Guardian newspaper: "I think there was a loneliness in me. I’d lost all my family. And you get to a point in your life where your friends get married and have children, and you’re left again. There’s part of me then that just wants to dig in and build a wall. And it just becomes a bigger and a bigger thing until you become an awfully sad, mentally ill human being."
