Channing Tatum feels "lucky" he didn’t become a teenage father.
The 34-year-old star – who has 11-month-old daughter Everly with wife Jenna Dewan-Tatum – was a stripper when he was 18 in Tampa, Florida, and is relieved he didn’t succumb to any of the temptations around him.
He said: "There’s so much salacious and dangerous stuff going on around you, but it’s fun at the same time, as a 19-year-old kid – money, women, a good time. I’m lucky – I don’t have a drug addiction, I didn’t get anyone pregnant. I probably got really lucky."
The ‘Magic Mike’ actor admits being a stripper was like an "alternative reality" because of the diverse mix of people around him.
In a new interview with America’s GQ magazine, he said: "They’re just so out there you’re in an alternate reality. Even as a 19-year-old kid, I just couldn’t believe this world I was in.
"These guys, some of them are really cool, some of them are completely, like, hippies, some are completely meatheads and steroid-crazy freakazoids, other ones are stuck in the ’80s, and some of them are an everyday Joe that has a construction job, and some of them are businessmen. One guy was an attorney during the day."
Channing Tatum’s lucky escape from being teen dad
