Los Angeles, March 3 : Actor Daniel Radcliffe once had a poor lifestyle in his youth. The actor shared that he used to â??run on coffee and cigarettes all dayâ?? before giving up smoking.

The actor said that he is now â??pretty intenseâ?? about fitness, reports â??Peopleâ?? magazine.

He told WSJ Magazine, â??I do weights, circuit training, cardio. I donâ??t look like a person who would be a fitness freak, but Iâ??m pretty intense about it. I feel like Iâ??m a cliche of a former alcoholic or anyone who had any kind of addictive personality and then switched that addiction to being about the gymâ??.

The actor, who stars alongside Tracy Morgan in the new NBC comedy The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins, first shared his sobriety in 2012, later describing alcohol as â??the easiest way to escape being self-consciousâ??.

As he told WSJ.Magazine, â??I used to run on coffee and cigarettes all day, and then I gave up smoking. Now I just run on coffee all dayâ??.

Heâ??s also an early riser, thanks to his two-year-old son, whom he shares with longtime girlfriend Erin Darke. (He and Darke have not shared their sonâ??s name publicly).

He said, â??I have a small child, so my body has trained to wake up at about 5:30. My son has a night-light where you can program it to turn a different color at a certain time, so at 6:30 it will flick from blue to yellow and I will hear him scream, â??Itâ??s yellow, COME GET MEâ??â??.

As per â??Peopleâ??, although heâ??s been open about his past struggles with alcohol, Radcliffe, and his fellow Harry Potter stars, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson have largely escaped the public scandals that plague other child stars.

While people will look to â??the Harry Potter kids in general as being a good example of, â??See, it can all be fineâ??, and yes it can be. He said, â??We all worked really hard on ourselves to make it fine. I honestly wouldnâ??t want my son to act or to become famous. Iâ??m also so aware of how tricky it can be, I think itâ??s very different growing up on a Harry Potter set in the U.K. The (same) crew was mostly there for 10 years, so we were surrounded by a group of people that really cared about us. I was also really lucky with my parents. They had the right balance of being like, This is all really special and really cool, but also thereâ??s some stuff about this that is really weirdâ??.

/IANS