Patrick Stewart revealed he quickly developed a dependency on sleeping pills following his first divorce.
The “X-Men” actor recalled going through a “rough time” after his 1989 split from Sheila Falconer in his newly released memoir, “Making It So.”
Stewart, who was filming “Star Trek” at the time, wrote that he found himself “dependent on sleeping pills to get me the hours of restoration I needed to do my job properly.”
He and Falconer, who share two children, wed in 1966.
Their marriage ended partly due to Stewart’s affair with Jennifer Hetrick, who played Vash on “Star Trek: The Next Generation” opposite his Captain Picard.
The British star eventually decided to “quit the pills” during a break in filming in the TV series, however he wrote that “sleep became almost impossible.”
Instead, Stewart found himself waking up in the early hours of the morning with a “full-body feeling of panic, my legs sweating profusely, which had never happened before and hasn’t since.”
He confessed that the dark chapter was the toughest of his life because his children — particularly his daughter, Sophie — were furious at him for divorcing their mother.
Stewart, 83, also wrote that his Los Angeles home started becoming “problematic.”
The Tony nominee claimed that the house was haunted.
He recalled disturbing moments like hearing voices, smelling food being cooked and footsteps on an empty staircase.
It creeped him out so much that he rented the house to a young couple with a child.
A few months later, the mother called to tell Stewart that her daughter had seen a “shadowy male figure in the hall” and also heard voices and footsteps.
According to the actor, she screamed: “Whoever you are, f—k off and leave us in peace!”
Afterward, the disturbances stopped.
When Stewart ran into the people who sold him the house, he wrote that they were “clearly uncomfortable” and he got “the distinct impression that they had something to hide.”
Eventually, Stewart sold the house and found love again with his third wife, Sunny Ozell, whom he met in a Brooklyn restaurant where she was a waitress. He confessed that they slept together on their first date.
They married in 2013, with longtime pal Ian McKellan officiating.
