'Growing Pains' star Jeremy Miller began drinking at age 4
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"Growing Pains" star Jeremy Miller opened up about his life-long struggle with alcohol addiction.
The child actor revealed on "Oprah: Where Are They Now?" that he began drinking at age 4.
"I began drinking at 4 years old," Miller said on "Oprah: Where Are They Now?" "My grandparents used to throw a lot of parties, and I would run around after the parties and finish off all the empty beers."
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But it wasn't until he was 12 that he "got hammered."
"I didn't really mess around with it after that until I was around 12," he says. "That was the first time I ever got hammered."
Miller explained that he believes there was just "something there" that caused him to drink.
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"There was always something there, whether it's genetic component, mental, whatever you want to call it. There was something there. I never had that 'off' switch," Miller says.
The actor, 39, finally hit rock bottom when he woke up from a night of drinking and his fiancée told him that he drove his car while drunk.
"Rock bottom for me was waking up after having been completely blacked out, not having a clue what I did, with my fiancée sitting on the end of the bed, yet again, pissed and [me] not knowing what she could say. She could have told me I got in the car and killed four people last night; I would have had no clue," Miller says. "That was my rock bottom."
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Catch more of Miller's interview on "Oprah: Where Are They Now?" on Jan. 30 on OWN.