Simon Pegg is getting candid about his struggles with alcohol.During a recent episode of the BBC's, Pegg revealed that he hid his alcoholism while working on the set of in the 2000s.«You become very sneaky when you have something like that in your life,» Pegg told host Lauren Laverne, via the .Pegg, who plays an IMF technical field agent, Benji Dunn in the series, shared that he became addicted to alcohol after suffering through a series of mental health issues, the first of which started as a teenage bout of depression while studying to get into the University of Bristol. A seriously low mood returned unexpectedly in 2006, but Pegg kept the matter private while filming the franchise's third installment, which was released that year.«You learn how to do it without anyone noticing because it takes over.