The scene was harrowing: barricaded in his bathroom at the tail end of a week-long cocaine binge, former West End star Darren Day was in a state. The question is how did he get there?
It was 2020, the height of the Covid pandemic, and the veteran stage performer and TV host had torn through between ‘20 to 30 grams’ of the class-A substance in a futile attempt to erase his sorrows after his entertainment company went bust.
The now 57-year-old – who had starred on I’m A Celebrity two decades earlier and hosted the popular ITV game show You Bet! – recalled
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