Slater: 'I drank my way around the world'

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Christian Slater has told how he hit the bottle after hitting one-time partner Michelle Jonas.

The Broken Arrow star said he popped open a bottle of champagne as a form of escape following the 1997 assault and ended up on a two-year bender.

Speaking on US TV's Inside The Actors Studio, Slater said: "For a certain period of time I met a girl, got involved with her, and it was pretty much brought into that relationship all the tools that I had at that particular time, which was jealousy, insecurity, neurosis, fear, paranoia - not the best tools to enter into a relationship.

"I found myself at home one night with a bottle of champagne, popped the cork, poured the glass, said 'God keep an eye on me', downed the drink and went on this phenomenal two-year run where I pretty much drank my way around the world," he said.

The actor is now enjoying a career resurgence on US TV in My Own Worst Enemy, and has also said he would love to team up with Winona Ryder to make Heathers 2.