Jim Davidson opens up about his cocaine addiction | UK News

Comedy star Jim Davidson has opened up about his cocaine behavior and how he spent eight weeks in rehab to get off it back in 1993.

The 72-year-old has by no means shied away from discussing his wild previous, having claimed that he spent a lot of the early 90s taking medicine with the late Queen singer Freddie Mercury and Kenny Everett. He additionally revealed that he was a “drug mule” for his associates, carrying round a lot of their stash. Speaking on James O’Brien’s ITV debate show, he stated: “I used to take tonnes of drugs. My mates used to send me down to Erith to pick up all the pills and things and come back to Woolwich.”

He went on: “I did not go far, it isn’t like I went to Peru or someplace, however I used to be the bloke from the pub that used to go and get all of them. I took their money and went to buy it off a bloke with a nostril like that [mimes a broken nose], got here back and gave it to my mates.”

Discussing his addiction in 2015, the funnyman famously instructed The Sun that he was so hooked on cocaine at one level that he wished to have further nostrils hem “surgically added” so he may take more of the addictive drug. He shared: “At one showbiz party I was sat at a table with my nose bleeding, looking like I was about to keel over and die, and I remember wondering why Miss World, who was a guest at the do, didn’t want to talk to me.”

Discussing his addiction in a new interview with the Telegraph, Jim defined that he started taking cocaine as a result of he was consuming a lot alcohol. He stated, “That didn’t really agree with me. Colombia could not produce enough. Come on, lads, work on weekends, Jim needs his nose full.”

Following Jim’s stint in rehab, the grandfather of 5 hasn’t touched medicine again, though he admits that he nonetheless drinks “a bit too much”. Speaking about needing to get off cocaine, he stated: “Luckily with me, the ‘come down’ from medicine outweighed the high they supplied, so it was a easy step for me to get help and stop, which I did, and to at the present time have by no means touched one other drug. And hopefully, someday at a time, I’ll proceed to abstain.”

Earlier this yr, Jim revealed to the Express that he had written to the top of GB News to investigate if the channel was for sale as his own TV station UStreme has now turn into a totally fledged TV service operating each unique programmes and traditional exhibits and comedy sketches that may’t be discovered wherever else.