United Kingdom, Jan. 13 -- Noah Wyle was a "really dishonest kid" but it's made him "pathologically honest" as an adult.

The Pitt star - who shot to fame on medical drama E.R. in the 1990s - has admitted he told a lot of lies when he was a child and even claimed to have been a cast member of US sitcom What's Happening!!

He told the New York Times: "I was a really dishonest kid. I lied a lot for attention. I lied for status. I lied for favour. I lied for advantage."

Wyle, 54, went on to reveal he told a huge lie during his time at summer camp when one of the other kids told him he looked like an actor on What's Happening!! and he claimed it really was him even though it was not true.

However, Wyle's credits his childhood lies with maki...