Danny Dyer reveals he was ‘slowly committing suicide’ with crack and drink binges – just two days after Jack Fincham admitted taking cocaine on night out
DANNY Dyer has opened up about the drink and crack binges that left him feeling like he would die - days after his daughter's boyfriend Jack Fincham told The Sun he took cocaine.
The 41-year-old EastEnders star said in an interview that he smoked the deadly drug during his 20s, admitting: "I was in such a dark place, I was slowly committing suicide."
He told the : "I had no hope, I hated myself, couldn’t look in the mirror for more than five seconds. It just repulsed me, what was looking back.
"I was just pressing the 'f*** it' button all the time. It got to a point where I thought I was going to die – I don’t think I’m going to wake up.”
Jack, 26, admitted earlier this week that he had binged on cocaine after giving into regular offers of drug-taking that TV fame had brought his way.
His girlfriend - and Danny's daughter - Dani has warned him never to take it again after he told her what he'd been up to.
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He said he dreaded telling Danny, adding: “I’m sure most dads would take a dim view of it. I’ve made a mistake and I’m sorry for it and that’s the truth.
“But I went out all night, I was drinking and I just got carried away and made a stupid, stupid mistake which I wish I’d never done, you know. I regret it.”
Speaking in today's interview, Danny told how he was on stage in New York in 2001 after a night taking crack.
He admitted: "I was abusing myself so much, my brain wasn’t ready and I didn’t have a clue what to say.
"The blood rushed from my feet to my head and I was petrified. I felt so vulnerable. Never really been the same since."
He added: "It’s like a boxer who wins 27 fights and no-one gets near him and then they get knocked out and they’re never the same again.”
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