Terry Crews has admitted that his addiction to porn almost cost him his marriage.
Speaking ahead of the release of his new audiobook, Stronger Together, which Crews co-wrote with his wife, Rebecca King Crews, the Brooklyn Nine-Nine star described how, on a day the couple now refer to as D-day, he had to ask for his wife's forgiveness for both his porn addiction and for being unfaithful to her ten years earlier.
"I would like to describe myself as a toxic male," said Crews looking back on some of his past behaviour.
Speaking specifically about his porn addiction with American talk show host Jimmy Kimmel, Crews said: "With porn and alcohol and different things like that, people think it's a willpower issue, but it's not. It's literally a lack of information issue. Because the trick is you think it's great. Everything works for you until it doesn't, and that was one of the things I really wanted to get out," Crews told Kimmel.
In previous interviews, Crews has said that his porn addiction began early in his life, before he'd even hit his teens.
"I was addicted to pornography since I was 12 years old. Let me tell you. My father was addicted to alcohol and my mother was addicted to religion. So what happens is you had an addictive household," Crews said while appearing on The Wendy Williams Show.
"You don't know how powerful you (women) are. Men get addicted to looking at pictures of you. That's how powerful a woman is. It's one of those things that took me away and it medicated me. But this is the problem. I never told anyone. I didn't tell my wife for years."