'90s heartthrob Rupert Everett recently revealed that he's not in the best health currently. The actor says that he's almost crippled, and it is all the result of trying to keep a buff physique in the 1990s.
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Everett says it was hard to keep his status as a '90s heartthrob. And apparently it comes with consequences as well.
"I ruined myself," he told the Guardian. "Now I'm almost crippled as a result."
"I could never be bothered to do all those things, like stretching, which were necessary for lifting weights, because your tendons get tighter and tighter," he continued. "So boring. I didn't do any of that. So now my demise will be musculoskeletal, I think."
Everett is mourning the loss of his status as a heartthrob. He said, "I was wonderful-looking at one point. I had muscles. Everything. It was quite short-lived. I call it my Hollywood year. Even work was about cruising, really. Trying to be attractive. Which obviously came from the feeling of not being attractive enough."
Heartthrob Status Gone
The actor admitted that he was vain back then. These days, he said that he no longer goes to the gym. In fact, he gets his weekly exercise from walking his Labrador.
"My vanity for me wasn't about 'mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?'. Vanity is often a feeling of deep insecurity rather than feeling how fabulous I am," Everett added.
The actor has also put his partying and drug use behind him as well. It's a far cry from how he saw himself getting older. But he's happy to no longer be in the clubs.
"I always thought when I was still clubbing and hanging out that I'd be one of those 75-year-olds in a tie-dye T-shirt at raves," he said.
"Well, I'm hardly interested in anything any more," he added. "I'm interested in dust particles and things like that. I could quite happily sit just watching spring."
