United Kingdom, Nov. 28 -- Ethan Hawke is still haunted by the death of Philip Seymour Hoffman because the recovering addict was taking his sobriety "seriously".

The Oscar-winning actor had battled drug addiction in his early life but he had been sober for 23 years aside from one relapse in 2012 and another in 2024 which cost him his life, and his longtime pal Hawke admits he's still devastated by the tragedy 11 years later.

Hawke told the Guardian newspaper: "To understand Phil, you have to understand how many days he beat addiction. Phil had a problem. He lost one day.

"But he won all the other days, for twentysomething-odd years.

"I don't want to say that he had no agency in his death. But it was a difficult period and he was takin...