Mission: Impossible star Simon Pegg blames undiagnosed ADHD for his three driving bans and multiple road crashes
The 55-year-old insisted he is a 'good driver' but unfortunately impaired due to his condition as he loses focus when there are people 'talking and shouting'.
It was a recent crash with his family in the vehicle that was the final straw as the Hollywood star finally decided it was time to get tested.
Mr Pegg told the Wrong Turns podcast that as he has grown older, he has realised 'I probably have very serious ADHD and I need to look into that'.
The confession comes as the Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead Hollywood star has been banned from driving three times.
When asked to talk about a small humiliating moment in his life, Mr Pegg said: 'I have several.
'My main one is that I, seemingly without exception, crash every hire car on holiday.
'Again, I think this is... I did it the other day in Greece - I was backing out of the driveway of where we were staying, I had like five people in the car, everyone was talking.
'I didn't look, I was checking the sides of the car to make sure I was clear of the driveway, I didn't look at rear view camera thing and I hit a post.
'And it's become like, I can feel my wife just crumbling with disappointment.
'I've been banned from driving three times.
'Well, because of totting, you know, like, your points mount up.
'So you get done for speeding - most recently it happened because, I'm justifying it, it's unjustifiable, there are so many 20 zones where there used to be 30 and you go into them, you know, like you always would and the cameras are there very quickly.
'Anyway, that's not an excuse.
'But on the day that, I was in such a bad mood all day after I did it as well because I just felt my wife's disappointment in me.
'My daughter, bless her heart, was like "Are you al lright, dad?"'
Mr Pegg added he was a 'good driver' and he's done a lot of 'advanced driving training'. Simon Pegg is pictured in 2011.
It was then that Mr Pegg made the spontaneous decision to 'look up on the phone' if he had symptoms of ADHD.
He said: 'I looked up on the phone "Do people with ADHD get into more car accidents than people who don't have it" and the answer was yes.
'And it's because of a lack of focus and ability to kind of totally focus.
'And that was the final straw that broke my ADHD camel's back.
'I need to speak to a psychiatrist and find out for sure if I have this thing.'
Mr Pegg added he was a 'good driver' and he's done a lot of 'advanced driving training', but he loses focus when there are lots of people in the car talking and shouting, though he admitted the crash was still his fault.
In 2021, Mr Pegg was banned from driving for six months after his £66,000 Mercedes was caught doing 63mph in a 40mph A-road.
He was clocked well over the speed limit on a camera on a north London dual carriageway.
At that time Mr Pegg already had nine penalty points on his licence and the four points imposed for the latest offence triggered the automatic ban at Wimbledon Magistrates Court.
Magistrates heard Mr Pegg, who has also appeared in Doctor Who, Star Trek and Star Wars: The Force Awakens, was snapped by a speed camera clocking up 63mph along the A41 in Hendon in his Mercedes GLE 500 in January 2020.
He declared his weekly income as £3,800 and was fined £660.
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