Johnny Harris: ‘I thought I was a tortured genius but I was just a sad fella who thought booze was my friend’ | Global | The Guardian

Johnny Harris: ‘I thought I was a tortured genius but I was just a sad fella who thought booze was my friend’ | Global | The Guardian

He’s the teenage boxing champion who fought
alcoholism and ended up sleeping rough. Now the actor is making a film
of his own life. Johnny Harris tells his remarkable tale to Megan Conner. ‘I’m just a complete chatterbox’. Johnny Harris at the House of St Barnabas, London. Photograph. Pål Hansen for the Observer ... “It was at The White Bear in Kennington, which weirdly was where I was cashing my cheques on a Friday night as a builder ...