United Kingdom, June 2 -- Rupert Everett "ruined" himself in pursuit of the perfect body and is now "almost crippled as a result".

The My Best Friend's Wedding star, 67, has confessed he hit the gym hard back in the 1990s as he attempted to achieve a sculpted physique but he couldn't "be bothered" with making sure he lifted weights safely and he's now paying the price.

He told the Guardian newspaper: "I ruined myself. Now I'm almost crippled as a result. I could never be bothered to do all those things, like stretching, which were necessary for lifting weights, because your tendons get tighter and tighter.

"So boring. I didn't do any of that. So now my demise will be musculoskeletal, I think."

He went on to confess that before he took...