Channing Tatum Admits To Drug Use Past During Stripper Days: 'I Never OD'd Or Anything'

Magic Mike XXL star Channing Tatum recently opened up to The Hollywood Reporter's Nov. 14 issue, where he admits to a history of past drug use and gets more in detail of his stripper days.

The 34-year-old married husband and father of one alluded to the fact that at age 19, when he started stripping and dropped out of the University of South Florida, the lifestyle had its dark side.

"I wouldn't say I was losing myself in drugs because I wasn't doing anything habitually. Just experimenting. Experimenting, I would say. Never the big ones — crack or heroin. I never OD'd or anything. Never," the husband of Jenna Dewan Tatum said.

The sequel Magic Mike XXL is loosely based on his own stripping past. The Hollywood stud even revealed a past story, regarding that time in his life.

"It was just a big show with 50 to 70 strippers and 2,000 to 3,000 women. It was crazy. They attacked me every night," the Foxcatcher actor recalled.

As for trying substances beyond the occasional drinking, he has tried cocaine.

"Maybe a couple of times, but that was later. Drinking was probably the biggest. I didn't look at drinking as a problem. It wasn't at that point, and I still don't think it's a problem. But at that time in my life, it was, 'Let's go out and have a great time,'" he said.

Recently, Tatum opened in T magazine about his struggles with learning problems.

"I have never considered myself a very smart person, for a lot of reasons," he revealed. As said before, he dropped out of college and then pursed stripping as a way to make an income. "Not having early success on that one path messes with you."