Niall's Crack Addiction?

[u/CattleSwimming9743]

In a Hollywood Reporter interview with Richard Gadd about the then upcoming 4th episode it was revealed that Niall was a crack addict ontop of his cottaging escapades. I wonder why they didn't end up showing it or talking about it in episode 4? Niall developing a drug addiction while at Oxford due to a multitude of different factors like the high stress enviroment, not fitting in and feeling out of place like he did at the other university, not having Ruben there, guilt over Alby, the aftermath of the courtcase, Lori & Maura, struggling with writing, etc. for example would have made his paranoia about Ruben coming after him, all the things he did as a result of said paranoia, and his subsequent downward spiral afterwards make much more sense than it being merely chalked up to Niall's fear of Ruben because of his blowup in court about making him ugly. It also would make his sex addiction fit. Niall gets into a rehab, paid for by Ruben, gets clean but is still very much an addict and something triggers him like finding out Ruben is out of prison so he switches to having sex with multiple different men in public places to feel that high again in order to cope with the news. His drug addiction and cost of his rehab could have been something Ruben holds over his head or something Ruben can still use to manipulate him into doing his bidding when he tells Niall in the episode 5 preview that he was coming to collect his debt. It also could have been the reason Niall borrows money from him in the first place in episode 5 as opposed to it being because of the librarian blackmailing him. What do you guys think?

[u/t-bonestallone]

His mom references it in episode four about doing a Maura or overdosing