The 'Foxcatcher' star, 34, however, feels his biggest struggle was drinking and not drugs, according to 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," he said in an interview while recalling his past as a stripper in Florida.
When asked about cocaine use, Tatum 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.'," he said.
"These people just (make it up). Some of our family members don't see (it's not true), and they read a stupid thing and don't understand it's a tabloid," he said.
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