United Kingdom, July 9 -- Jared Harris had his stomach pumped after accidentally drinking paraffin.

The Mad Men star, 63, has revealed he underwent emergency treatment as a child after one of his brothers convinced him to drink a bottle of cider, which turned out to be paraffin and the health scare meant he missed the TV broadcast of the moment astronaut Neil Armstrong took his first steps on the moon in 1969.

Jared told Radio Times magazine: "The Apollo programme was such a big thing when I was young. Unfortunately I missed the Moon landing because my older brother had discovered a bottle of cider and persuaded eight-year-old me to drink some.

"Only it wasn't cider, it was paraffin! So we were having our stomachs pumped when Neil Arms...