Perdita
09-07-2009, 05:58
FORMER junkie Craig Charles grabs a drug dealer in a flying tackle - but this time he's not after his stash.
The Corrie star, 44, who plays cabbie Lloyd Mullaney, was once suspended from the show after pictures were published of him smoking crack cocaine in the back of a taxi.
He ties up dealer Slug (Ashes to Ashes star Marshall Lancaster) after the ex-con planted Class A drugs on pal Steve McDonald's bride Becky (Katherine Kelly), leaving her facing jail.
After his own drug problem was exposed in 2006, Craig admitted blowing £250,000 on crack.
He blamed his addiction on the death of his father and the bitterness he felt after being wrongly accused of rape in 1995.
He said at the time: "I just didn't want to feel the pain.
"My wife and some of her family knew.
"I was a recluse, my life had shrunk."
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/soaps/2525088/Craig-Charles-fights-off-drug-dealer-for-a-change.html
The Corrie star, 44, who plays cabbie Lloyd Mullaney, was once suspended from the show after pictures were published of him smoking crack cocaine in the back of a taxi.
He ties up dealer Slug (Ashes to Ashes star Marshall Lancaster) after the ex-con planted Class A drugs on pal Steve McDonald's bride Becky (Katherine Kelly), leaving her facing jail.
After his own drug problem was exposed in 2006, Craig admitted blowing £250,000 on crack.
He blamed his addiction on the death of his father and the bitterness he felt after being wrongly accused of rape in 1995.
He said at the time: "I just didn't want to feel the pain.
"My wife and some of her family knew.
"I was a recluse, my life had shrunk."
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/soaps/2525088/Craig-Charles-fights-off-drug-dealer-for-a-change.html