Kit Harington has checked into a wellness retreat to work on “personal issues”, a rep for the Game Of Thrones star has confirmed.
The 32-year-old British actor began treatment at a facility in Connecticut several weeks ago, according to reports.
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In a statement, his representative said: “Kit has decided to utilise this break in his schedule as an opportunity to spend some time at a wellness retreat to work on some personal issues.”
Kit played Jon Snow in Game Of Thrones, which came to an end last week after eight hugely successful seasons.
A documentary about the show, The Last Watch, was released on Sunday and showed the star in tears when he learned about his character’s fate.
In a recent interview Kit spoke of “a huge heave of emotion” after filming the final scenes.
He told Variety: “You have these in-jokes, and these relationships that thrive for eight years.
“That’s a long time for those jokes to be going, and they never felt old or tired. In the last season, I was like, these are getting tired now.
“And I think they got tired because we could see the end coming.
“That’s a way of emotionally detaching from something: relationships very slightly starting to strain, just on the edges, just frayed.”
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In another interview with Esquire, Kit discussed how he broke down while filming his final scenes in the fantasy series.
“The final day of shooting, I felt fine… I felt fine… I felt fine… Then I went to do my last shots and started hyperventilating a bit,” he said.
“Then they called, ‘Wrap!’ And I just fucking broke down. It was this onslaught of relief and grief about not being able to do this again.”
Earlier this month Kit’s co-star Maisie Williams discussed how she felt pressure to pretend “that everything is fine” whilst growing up in the public eye.
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