Kit Harington has not watched the final season of the popular HBO series, Game of Thrones. The reason for this is not that the GoT finale faced some negativity after its release through HBO. Rather, Harington has a personal reason as to why he is yet to watch and find out what happens at the end of the the long-running show.

In a recent conversation with his Game of Thrones co-star Peter Dinklage for Variety, Harington said that he checked into a rehabilitation centre and spent a six-week-long period there as the final was being broadcast. The actor revealed that he spent much of his time on the GoT set, "working from a place of pain". He added that the nature of his character in the series and the fact that it required much publicity and being "front and center" added to the mental exhaustion for him.

Harington is known for playing the brooding Jon Snow in Game of Thrones. The role proved a breakthrough for the actor. He even met actor Rose Leslie on the set of the series and fell in love with her before getting married to her.

Elsewhere in the conversation with Dinklage, the actor said that playing Snow took so much out of him that he decided not to sign up for any other character for a while post GoT. "The trouble for me with Jon Snow was that I couldn’t, for many years, be lighter," the actor told Dinklage.

"I needed to get sober. I needed to get my head on straight... So I didn’t see the last season. And then I decided to take a year off work to get sorted. Right as I’m going to reengage with work, COVID hit. So it was this very strange period after the show ended," Harington added.