Former Nickelodeon Star Josh Peck Reveals Past Drug And Alcohol Addiction Before Releasing New Book
Drake and Josh star, Josh Peck is speaking out about his troubled past in his new book titled “Happy People Are Annoying.”
In the memoir, Josh expresses how it was growing up and adjusting to fame while being on the tv screen at such a young age. The actor also detailed his past fight against drug and alcohol addiction.
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“I was always looking for something outside to fix my insides,” Peck told PEOPLE. “But eventually I realized that whether my life was beyond my wildest dreams or a total mess, it didn’t change the temperature of what was going on in my mind. I knew that nothing in the outside world would make me feel whole.”
He also shared how growing up in a single parent household challenged his childhood while taking on the hit role on the Amanda Show and Drake and Josh.
“I spent most of my life dying to be typical but I grew up with a single mom, I was overweight and I was a musical theater kid who really had no social status,” Peck revealed. “Comedy was my natural defense mechanism.”
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After deciding to focus more on his health around, Peck dieted and worked out for 18 months until he lost 127 pounds — but to Josh, that wasn’t enough.
“It became clear that once I lost the weight that I was the same head in a new body,” Peck divulged. “What is really clear is that I overdo things. And then I discovered drugs and alcohol. And that became my next chapter. I used food and then drugs to numb my feelings.”