"I Was Once A Stripper & Experimented Cocaine" - Channing Tatum Covers Hollywood Reporter

Hollywood actor, Channing Tatum, who has 17-month-old daughter Everly with wife Jenna Dewan-Tatum, admits he tried cocaine 'a couple times' after working as a stripper in Florida, but insists he's never had problems with substance abuse or alcoholism. The 34-year-old star told The Hollywood Reporter: 'I wouldn't say I was losing myself in drugs because I wasn't doing anything habitually. Just experimenting. Experimenting, I would say. Never the big ones - crack or heroin. I never OD'd or anything. Never.'

Asked if he'd used cocaine, he said: 'Maybe a couple times, but that was later.
'Drinking was probably the biggest [thing]. I didn't look at drinking as a problem. It wasn't at that point, and I still don't think it's a problem. But at that time in my life, it was, 'Let's go out and have a great time.' 

But the Magic Mike star brushed off a comment he made during an interview earlier this year, when he called himself a 'functioning alcoholic.' He said: 'It was something said that wasn't meant to be factual. It was said in context with the glutton side of myself. I'm constantly a flip-and-flop of extremes. I take care of it, to an extent - and then I kind of knock it all down and destroy the sand castle. All I meant was that I do things in extreme.'

Despite being one of Hollywood's hottest stars, Channing didn't make much money from stripping.
He said: 'Not as much as you think. On a good night, 150 bucks. On a bad night, 70 bucks--even 50 at times.'

The star also opened up about his family life, revealing he is still undecided as to how he will discipline his daughter Everly. 'I don't know if I'm going to spank my child or not,' he said.
Channing also said the couple plan to have another child, although he isn't sure when that will happen.  'I don't think very, very soon,' he said, 'but it really depends if Jenna's show [Witches Of East End] gets picked up for a third season. Then we would probably wait.' (Lifetime revealed Tuesday that the show won't be renewed).

Credits: Hollywood Reporter / DailyMail UK