Hopper Penn has his life back on track, thanks to some tough love from dad.

The 23-year-old actor recently opened up in an interview with ES Magazine about his battle with drugs, specifically crystal meth.

He said, “I was doing a lot of stuff, but meth was the main one that brought me down.”  He added, “I was pretty bad. I just got caught a lot doing stuff, you know? Whether it was my parents or the cops.”

Hopper said that the divorce of his parents, Sean Penn and Robin Wright, was particularly difficult for him and his sister, Dylan. He said, “Honestly? I was pretty mad, because they had split up before and then got back together, and then they did it again. So it was like, ‘Pick which one you’re gonna do.’ “ He added, “I was young and thinking: ‘Are you just f—— with me and my sister?’ I mean it was not the best. It was kind of tough talking to them. Because they were both pretty broken too, I think.”

Ultimately, though, it was his dad who helped him beat his debilitating addiction. Hopper said,  “I went to rehab because I woke up in a hospital and my dad was like, ‘Rehab? Or bus bench?’ I was like, ‘I’ll take the bed.’”

Catch the full interview in this week’s issue of ES Magazine, available today.