Charlize: Why I’ve put drugs to bed

You know what it’s like – you party in your 20s and then slow down in your 30s. Well, Charlize Theron, who turns 42 next month, has slowed down so much she goes to bed at 8.45pm. But the actress admits to having had a “f ****** great time” experimenting with class-a drugs in her yoof. “I cannot smoke weed any more,” she says. “I become so uninteresting. I don’t want to talk. I switch off and have nothing to say. “In my 20s I was a wake-and-baker and then I couldn’t do it any more. I was like functioning and then one day I just sat on the couch and didn’t move. “Now I am asleep by 8.45pm and I f ****** love it and I love it, love it. I wake up at 6.30am... I have to make two lunchboxes.” Asked she if she did cocaine in her 20s, she nodded: “I definitely experimented, yeah.” Asked about ecstasy, she laughed: “I had a f ****** great time. I didn’t do a lot of it but I definitely did in my 20s. “I always worried in my 20s I would feel like if I had kids I would be missing out on this life and then I hit my 30s and thought I am so f ****** done with it.” Fair enough.