Nicolas Cage has revealed he wanted to ''crawl up and hide'' when his financial situation escalated out of control, leaving him owing $6 million in back taxes.

Nicolas Cage has revealed he wanted to ''crawl up and hide'' when his financial situation escalated out of control, leaving him owing $6 million in back taxes.

Nicolas Cage wanted to 'crawl up and hide' when his financial situation escalated out of control.
The 'National Treasure' actor - who was forced to put several of his properties on the market to fund a bill for millions of pounds in unpaid tax - admits he was in shock about his huge debts and wanted to ignore them.
He said: 'The first thing you think is, 'This can't be true. I want to crawl up and hide at the end of the world.' '
Cage says he trusted his former manager Samuel Levin with his money and took his advice when it came to properties.
He revealed: 'With hindsight an inexcusable naivety, because buying these properties ruined me financially.'
However, Cage is determined to pay back all the money and has hired a new manager to help sort his finances.
Cage - who has a four-year-old son Kal-El with third wife Alice Kim and a 19-year-old son Weston from a previous relationship - told Germany's InTouch magazine: 'I have a new manager now, so I'm halfway there. And I will pay off all those debts, to the last cent.
'I have a responsibility for my sons and my wife. I have to get back on my feet.'
The extent of the 46-year-old star's debts were revealed last year, claiming he owed $6 million in back taxes from 2007.
It was also revealed Cage - who owns a jet, two yachts, three castles, two islands in the Bahamas and a number of mansions - once spent $276,000 on a 67-million-year-old dinosaur skull.