Academy Award winning actor Phillip Seymour Hoffman checked out of a 10-day detox program at an East Coast rehabilitation center. TMZ reports that the actor was in for using Heroin.
The 45-year-old actor has battled drug addiction in the past while he was in his early twenties. He has been clean and sober for the past 23 years. He has even been actively acting as a role model for other celebrities battling drug and alcohol addiction.
Hoffman told TMZ that his latest fall off the wagon began about a year ago when he started to abuse prescription drugs. That eventually escalated to the "Capote" start snorting heroine. He claims to have been using heroine for a week before he realized that he needed help and checked himself into the 10-day detox at the rehabilitation center.
The actor credits "a great group of friends and family" for helping him get through his relapse with drugs.
In an interview that he did with 60 Minutes back in 2006, Hoffman explained that, after graduating New York University's drama school, he was lured into a life of hard drugs and hard partying.
"It was all that [drugs and alcohol], yeah, it was anything I could get my hands on... I liked it all," he said. "I went [to rehab], I got sober when I was 22 years old. You get panicked... and I got panicked for my life. It really was just that."
The actor is set to play a major role in November's upcoming "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire." Since his brief stint in the detox center, Hoffman is reportedly back to work filming on the set in Europe.
Below is the trailer for the film "Capote" where Hoffman stars as the writer Truman Capote while he researched his famous book "In Cold Blood" about the murder of a family in Kansas. Hoffman won an Oscar for Best Actor for his role.
