Article: Actor Andrew McCarthy speaks of drinking problem during his 1980s Brat Pack fame


AP Worldstream
03-26-2004
Dateline: NEW YORK
Andrew McCarthy can admit now that he wasn't exactly in the pink while shooting the movie "Pretty in Pink."

The actor says he had a serious drinking problem at the height of his Brat Pack fame in the '80s, but he still managed to function _ and fool everyone.

"Like in 'Pretty in Pink' for example, people said, 'Oh, he's so sensitive and lovely in that movie,'" McCarthy says in an interview on ABC television due to air in the United States on Monday.

"I was so hung over for that whole movie ... I'm thinking, 'God, I got a headache. I am just ...

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