Hot on the cover, hot inside (and with Laird Hamilton)

Gerard Butler covers Men's Journal (November 2012), to which he unloads about his past addictions:

"'I think, on a basic level, I have a pretty addictive personality,' Butler says. 'Both good and bad.' In his twenties the bad could get pretty heavy, when he'd drink too much and do something stupid, like smash a beer bottle over his head, or play chicken with a car, or hang off the railing of a cruise ship at 5 a.m. belting out Rod Stewart's 'Sailing.' He often looks back on those days and is genuinely surprised he's still alive."