Who ever would have thought that movie star (and model magnet) Leonardo DiCaprio would be one to worry about whether girls liked him for himself, or were just hitting on him for his celebrity status? In the latest issue of Rolling Stone, the "Inception" leading man reveals that he had better luck with the ladies before the infamous ship went down.
Though it doesn't seem like Leo's ever struggled to land a date -- his past supermodel girlfriends and flirtations have included Gisele Bundchen, Helena Christensen, Naomi Campbell -- the actor, who is currently linked to his longtime on/off Israeli model girlfriend Bar Refaeli, confesses that he could judge a real attraction from a star conquest much more easily before he was famous. "I had better success meeting girls before 'Titanic,'" says DiCaprio, adding, "My interactions with them didn't have all the stigma behind it, not to mention there wasn't a perception of her talking to me for only one reason."
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The three-time Oscar nominee also recounts to Rolling Stone stories of his past wild-child days, where he and his posse of actor friends would run wild in LA and New York, with no pesky camera-phone wielding fans, or ever-present paparazzi there to document their every move. "I got to be wild and nuts, and I didn't suffer as much as people do now, where they have to play it so safe that they ruin their credibility, I didn't care what anyone thought..."
At the ripe old age of 35, DiCaprio is reflective about his Young Hollywood past. "It was also about avoiding the tornado of chaos, of potential downfall," he says, adding, "It was, 'Wow, how lucky are we to not have hung out with that crowd or done those things?' My two main competitors in the beginning, the blond-haired kids I went to audition with, one hung himself and the other died of a heroin overdose... I was never into drugs at all. There aren't stories of me in a pool of my own vomit in a hotel room on the Hollywood Strip."
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Letting his serious actor facade slip just a little, the former "Growing Pains" cutie admits he was a bit of a handful when he was a child. "I was essentially a dwarf with the biggest mouth in the world. I would talk back to anyone and be up for any fight, and when you tell a kid that's three years older than you to shove it, you're going to get your ass beat... I was a real punk, there's no question about it."
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