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| Kit Harington: Game of Thrones star getting help for 'personal issues' | Kit Harington: Game of Thrones star getting help for 'personal issues' |
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| Game of Thrones star Kit Harington has checked into a "wellness retreat" in the US, reportedly for stress. | |
| The actor - who's known for playing Jon Snow - began getting treatment several weeks ago, according to Page Six. | The actor - who's known for playing Jon Snow - began getting treatment several weeks ago, according to Page Six. |
| His publicist told Radio 1 Newsbeat that Kit was working on "some personal issues." | His publicist told Radio 1 Newsbeat that Kit was working on "some personal issues." |
| In a recent interview Kit spoke of "a huge heave of emotion" after filming the final scenes of Game of Thrones, which he worked on for eight seasons. | In a recent interview Kit spoke of "a huge heave of emotion" after filming the final scenes of Game of Thrones, which he worked on for eight seasons. |
| In a different interview - the 32-year-old actor told Esquire what it like filming Jon Snow's final scenes. | |
| He said: "The final day of shooting, I felt fine... I felt fine... I felt fine... Then I went to do my last shots and started hyperventilating a bit. | |
| "Then they called, 'Wrap!' And I just... broke down. It was this onslaught of relief and grief about not being able to do this again." | |
| A documentary about the end of Game of Thrones called The Last Watch was released on Sunday. | |
| It showed Kit crying when he learned about his character's ending. | |
| Kit - who was in Game of Thrones from the first episode until the last - told Variety about the effects of working on such an intense show for a long period. | |
| "You have these in-jokes, and these relationships that thrive for eight years," he explained. | "You have these in-jokes, and these relationships that thrive for eight years," he explained. |
| "That's a long time for those jokes to be going, and they never felt old or tired. In the last season, I was like, these are getting tired now. | "That's a long time for those jokes to be going, and they never felt old or tired. In the last season, I was like, these are getting tired now. |
| "And I think they got tired because we could see the end coming. | "And I think they got tired because we could see the end coming. |
| "That's a way of emotionally detaching from something: relationships very slightly starting to strain, just on the edges, just frayed." | "That's a way of emotionally detaching from something: relationships very slightly starting to strain, just on the edges, just frayed." |
| The final series of the show - based on the books A Song of Ice and Fire by George R R Martin - received mixed reviews with more than a million people signing a petition for it to be remade. | The final series of the show - based on the books A Song of Ice and Fire by George R R Martin - received mixed reviews with more than a million people signing a petition for it to be remade. |
| Earlier this month Kit's co-star Maisie Williams discussed how growing up in the public eye, she felt pressure to pretend "that everything is fine". | Earlier this month Kit's co-star Maisie Williams discussed how growing up in the public eye, she felt pressure to pretend "that everything is fine". |
| Isaac Hempstead Wright, who played Bran Stark, told Newsbeat that from the first day of filming on Game of Thrones they knew the work was "relentless". | Isaac Hempstead Wright, who played Bran Stark, told Newsbeat that from the first day of filming on Game of Thrones they knew the work was "relentless". |
| Isaac, who worked on the show from the ages of 11 - 20, was giving his inside story before the final season was shown on TV. | Isaac, who worked on the show from the ages of 11 - 20, was giving his inside story before the final season was shown on TV. |
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