*picks up his napkin and twists it around in his hands, beneath the level of the table cloth* *very softly* I had problems with alcohol and other things. It's in the past now but I really can't drink. *offers another shy smile (though his eyes haven't lifted from his hands and, really, you probably never asked for a gay son with addiction problems) but doesn't really feel the need to explain what it was like as a teenage model or a popstar or the son of an alcoholic (it won't make anyone feel better)*
A friend - Gil-galad? I was telling you about him before? He saw me into a pretty decent rehab clinic here last year and it seems to have done the trick.