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Philip Seymour Hoffman has left a detox center that he entered to get ahead of drug problems that are said to have been spinning out of control, according to reports.
“The Master” actor revealed to TMZ that he’d started using drugs again about a year ago, starting off with prescription pills then escalating to snorting heroin. He said the heroin use only lasted about a week, but he decided to check himself into a detox facility on the East Coast to take control of the problem.
Hoffman, 45, has struggled with substance abuse in the past but was able to stay clean for 23 years before the latest relapse.
The actor, who has three children with costume designer Mimi O’Donnell, is already back at work, filming a movie in Europe, according to ET.
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