Andrew McCarthy (Actor)

"I was just a guy doing a couple of films that were successful with young people. None of that had anything to do with who I am. It was nice that people liked those movies, but I was completely unaware of it at the time. I had no idea it was having such an impact on people. I was young, I wasn't aware that my actions were really having consequences. I was busy leading my own pretty self-centered life. I retreated. I wasn't out there cultivation. I was frightened by it all, instead of parlaying it into something. I came home to New York. There were a number of years when I lost my way, floating around. I was growing up. I didn't have as much interest, passion, or discipline about acting as I've had the last few years. It had a stigmatizing effect on my career to some degree because anytime you're labeled it's limiting." - McCarthy quoted in The Resident, Vol. 12, NO. 7

McCarthy (sober since 2004) reveled the details of his drinking problem during a March 29, 2004 interview with Deborah Roberts on "20/20"