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The Irish Sun
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
Emotional Danny Dyer reveals moment he thought he'd DIE from drink and drugs & EastEnders co-star who stepped in to help
DANNY Dyer has opened up about the harrowing moment he feared he would die from drink and drugs. The former Mick Carter actor, 47, admitted his life spiralled out of control before a close pal on the soap staged an intervention that helped save him. 5 Danny opened up about the moment he realised he had an addiction problem Credit: The Mega Agency 5 He was candid about the effect his addiction to booze and drugs had on his family Credit: BBC Studios Productions Limited. Danny has revealed he had a major wake-up call after getting so 'off his nut' on drink and drugs he couldn't even put his trousers on. The EastEnders legend opened up on Danny, who has always been honest about his battles with booze and drugs, told Louis it all came to a head after the 2017 National Television Awards. He recalled: 'I had been on it all night after the NTAs... I couldn't get my trousers on. That was the moment I knew something had to change.' more on danny dyer "I was just sitting on my en suite toilet trying to work out what leg goes in what, and I don't why. "I've sort of had many of them moments over the years of me being completely off my head. "But that one really resonated with me. It was more because I looked up, my wife was just watching me and she looked shattered and she looked ill. "And of course, you know, the drug taking and the madness that comes with it, you're destroying yourself and your body and you're slowly killing yourself, but you also, you're really upsetting the people around you. Most read in Soaps "I just looked at her, even through this moment, I was off my head. But everything seemed to just sort of go, what the f*ck are you doing to people around you that love you? "So I had a car picking me up to take me to work and it was just this moment I thought, "s**t, you're going to die. Danny Dyer reveals he was 'off his nut' on drugs during 'f***ing dark' EastEnders filming and slams 's**t' soap scripts "You're going to kill yourself. You're not happy. You're spanking all your money on drugs. You're destroying everything around you." He continued: "It's weird, that moment, because I went straight to work that day and I was a bit off my head and I did say, 'Listen, I need help. I can't do this anymore, "'I need help. I don't know what it is, but this is a crossroads in my life where I need a gear change and I need it now and I don't think I'm going to survive this year." He went on to credit his EastEnders co-star Danny Dyer's career so far By Conor O'Brien Danny Dyer has played several film and TV roles across a three-decade acting career. Here's a look back at some of his most memorable performances. Prime Suspect (1993): Danny made his screen debut in an episode of the long-running ITV police procedural. He appeared as a character named "Martin Fletcher". Human Traffic (1999): Danny's debut film saw him portray "Moff", a dealer. Directed by Justin Kerrigan, the coming-of-age comedy drama also featured Mean Machine (2001): An adaptation of The Longest Yard, this sports comedy also featured Vinnie Jones and Jason Statham. Danny played "Billy the Limpet". The Football Factory (2004): Loosely based on the novel of the same name by John King. Danny led the cast of this sports drama, directed by Nick Love. He portrayed "Tommy Johnson". EastEnders (2013-2022): Danny appeared in the London-set BBC soap opera for almost a decade. He Rivals (2024): The actor was among an all-star ensemble cast in this Disney+ series based on Jilly Cooper's novel. Danny played the role of "Freddie Jones". Danny added: "And so, you know, I want give a shout out to Louisa Bradshaw-White, who played my sister Tina, who really came to the front for me, more than anybody else. "She'd always said that she thinks I've got an issue and problem. No one else would say that to me… I don't know, people don't want to busy themselves in your life either. "She would always say, 'whenever you're ready' you know, that was her vibe with me and then I was ready." Louis wondered if Louisa had been through something similar. Danny said: "She's had her issues like a lot of people have really, and a lot of people in my life." Danny first opened up about his struggles back in 2019, admitting he'd hit rock bottom after binging on crack cocaine and feeling like he was 'slowly committing suicide'. Speaking to the i newspaper at the time, the actor said: 'I was in such a dark place. I hated myself, couldn't look in the mirror for more than five seconds. I had no hope.' One of his lowest moments came in 2001 while starring in mentor Harold Pinter's play Celebration at New York's Lincoln Center - where he'd been up all night smoking crack before taking to the stage. '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.' The Louis Theroux Podcast is now on Spotify and all major platforms. 5 Danny recalled the NTAs in 2017 where he hit rock bottom Credit: PA 5 He credited his on-screen sister who helped him Credit: BBC / Jack Barnes 5 He detailed his experience on Louis Theroux's podcast, which is available to listen to now Credit: Getty
Metro
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Metro
Danny Dyer reveals moment he realised drugs were 'destroying his life'
Actor Danny Dyer has opened up about the moment he realised that he needed to give up drugs. The former EastEnders star, 47, has admitted that he could not work out how to put his trousers on following a night of partying, which caused him to change his ways. Appearing on The Louis Theroux Podcast, the London-born star described the moment he knew he was 'destroying' his life after celebrating a win at the National Television Awards. He recalled frankly: 'I just could not work out how to get my jeans on. 'I was just sitting on my en-suite toilet trying to work out what leg goes in what.' He added to the host: 'I've sort of had many of them moments over the years of me being completely off my head. 'But that one really resonated with me. 'It was more because I looked up, my wife was just watching me, and she looked shattered, and she looked ill.' Danny, who has spoken before about his drug abuse, said he knew it was having a bad effect on his wife, Jo, whom he wed in 2016, as well as their children, Dani, 28, Sunnie, 18, and son Arty, 11. He added: 'It was just this moment; I thought, 'S**t, you're going to die. You're going to kill yourself. You're not happy. You're spanking all your money on drugs. You're destroying everything around you'.' Indeed, at one point in their marriage, Jo took control of 'everything', previously 'kicking Danny out', which he acknowledged she had 'every right to do', given that he'd disappear on drug benders for days at a time. Danny, who has been filming the second series of hit drama Rivals, has spoken on several occasions about his fame and how it's led to him making 'bad decisions'. Having shot to fame in the 1999 film Human Traffic, Danny is now one of the most recognisable faces on British television. However, he admits that there's a downside to glitzy parties, talk show appearances, and scooping trophies. Speaking previously on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, he recounted going to nightclubs and watching DJ sets in his younger days, where fans would meet him, but, mostly, he'd 'just wave off balconies and get paid quite a lot of money to do it'. Looking back, he said his days of 'hedonism' and 'mad behaviour' were 'awful'. In 2013, things started looking up when he was offered the role of Mick Carter in EastEnders, although he later revealed that he was addicted to taking Valium and diazepam before scenes. 'I had bailiffs [coming round], no one would hire me, and the more I'm doing these club appearances, the more drugs I'm taking, and drink, so I'm in this weird spiral,' he recalled. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Also in recent years, Danny has voiced his views on making cocaine use legal, claiming that banning it 'hasn't worked'. At the time, he made a controversial point that cigarettes and alcohol kill more people than the class A drug. Writing in his 2015 book Life Lessons from the East End, he said: 'Cocaine, it seems to me, is easier to get than a part for your boiler in this country. 'When they're detecting cocaine in tap water because of the number of people taking it, I'd say it was time for a different approach. Don't get me wrong, I think cocaine is dangerous. It killed 200-odd people in the UK last year. 'You can't dismiss that. It's a powerful, addictive drug which has the potential to f**k you up.' He added: 'Banning drugs hasn't worked. Ain't it about time to try something different?' Ultimately, Danny admitted himself to rehab in 2017 in Cape Town, having started to understand that his addiction affected so many people around him, not just himself. While he was seeking treatment in South Africa, Danny reached a point of feeling like he'd 'had enough' and was contemplating leaving. 'Then they read a letter out from home, from my daughter Dani, and it made me sit back down in that seat,' he told presenter Lauren Laverne. More Trending Without divulging details of the note written by his eldest child, Danny added that his then-20-year-old daughter helped him to realise how 'toxic' fame can be. Alongside Rivals, Danny's recent work includes Mr Bigstuff, for which he won a Bafta earlier this year. He also took the lead in Marching Powder, a film about a middle-aged man named Jack who is arrested for drug use before his life spirals out of control when he attempts to rebuild his marriage and relationships. The Louis Theroux Podcast is available on Spotify and all podcast platforms.
The Herald Scotland
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Herald Scotland
'My wife went through a lot with me' How Danny Dyer reinvented himself
'This is a tune that takes me back to a time when I just remember men and women jumping around and there was a lot of love in the air,' Dyer told presenter Lauren Laverne before spinning 'Playing with Knives' by Bizarre Inc. 'OK, he added, 'it might have been down to narcotics …' It was the little details that sang here. In the wake of his appearance in Human Traffic playing a drug dealer he'd have people turning up outside his house hoping to take drugs with him. He was still living on a council estate at the time. They even nicked his dustbin once. 'And you try getting a dustbin from the council, darling,' he said to Laverne. 'It's a mission.' Read more Dyer made a lot of bad calls. 'I did go off the rails for many years,' he admitted. The aforementioned drink and drugs. There was an affair. And then there was the lad's mag advice column. He didn't even write it, but they paid him two grand a week. Until the magazine published something particularly heinous under Dyer's name. It was his success in EastEnders that gave him the space to realise he needed to change things. That something was rehab and therapy. Now he's a husband, a father and a grandfather. 'I'm really good at it now. I was rubbish for many years. A bit like my dad was, I suppose. My wife has gone through a lot with me, I think. 'I'm very grateful that she gave me another shot. She was saying to me the other day that she's glad she did because she's got the best version of me.' He met his wife Jo when they were both 13 and she has stuck with him through thick and a lot of thin. Listening to this I did think I'd like to hear Jo's story actually. But Dyer was interesting because he is clearly trying to work out his ideas on what makes a man a man? Is it OK to be affectionate? Is it acceptable to be an alpha male and still wear a pink dressing gown? (That was the pitch that sold him on EastEnders, by the way.) 'Toxic masculinity is a thing,' he said at one point, 'but it's not necessarily because you're a male. It's because you're a not very nice human being.' From masculinity to social geography. Did you know that there are still two streets in the UK named after Joseph Stalin? One in Colchester and one in Chatham, both named to commemorate the part the Soviets played in the Second World War and not changed since. There are still two streets in the UK named after Joseph Stalin (Image: PA) That was one of the things I learned listening to Word of Mouth on Radio 4 on Sunday night. The subject - you may have guessed - was street names. The Open University sociolinguist Philip Seargeant was Michael Rosen's guest and what followed was a whirlwind tour that took in geography, social history and how language changes. Fast but fascinating. Word of Mouth, like Desert Island Discs, is a simple format. It's why both work so well on radio. No mention of Gagarin Way in Lumphinnans, mind you. A quick shout-out for A Map of the Moon (Radio 4, Sunday), which saw Siddarth Khajuria visit the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh and ask who gets to name places on the lunar surface. Why is there a sea of tranquillity and a marsh of decay on the Moon? Blame it on a Jesuit priest called Giovanni Battista Riccioli. As one contributor noted, 'When you look at the moon now you are seeing a Catholic document frozen in the mid-1600s.' There was, it should be noted, a chilly realpolitik about the discussions of who owns space now. 'We started the project thinking it would be about poetic imagination,' producer Eleanor McDowall told me, 'and ended it feeling like we'd made a horror movie.' Even so, this had a lunar glitter to it, and among all the scientists and lawyers, Khajuria's son's contributions may have been the best thing about it. Listen Out For: Conversations From a Long Marriage, Radio 4, Monday, 2.15pm Given its starry cast (Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam) author Jan Etherington's CV and the comic durability of every episode, you might have thought the BBC might have considered Conversations From a Long Marriage for a TV transfer. As it is, it remains a reliable radio pleasure. Oh, and Irish comedian Mary Bourke has a new comedy series about being a carer starting on Radio 4 earlier in the afternoon.
Yahoo
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Danny Dyer plunged into a 'spiral of madness' after Harold Pinter's death
Danny Dyer plunged into a "spiral of madness" following the death of his mentor Harold Pinter. The 'Human Traffic' star struck up a close relationship with the legendary playwright when he was cast in his play 'Celebration' - which debuted in London in 2000 - and Danny went on to appear in two more Pinter plays over the years but he was left totally devastated when his pal passed away aged 78 in 2008. Danny has now confessed he hit rock bottom after the loss after reading about it in a newspaper. During an appearance on BBC Radio 4's 'Desert Island Discs', he explained: "I hadn't spoke to him in a while. I did go off the rails for many years and I found out by looking on the front of a newspaper. "Again, I'd been on a bender and I was coming home and I was going, I think I was going to buy cigarettes at the petrol garage, and I see it in the paper: 'Pinter dead'. "This really sent me on a spiral of madness, really. The guilt of not being around him any more and just being lost, I was a bit of a lost soul, and again, angry at the world." It comes after Danny revealed he's working on a play based on his friendship with Pinter with the working title 'When Harry Met Danny' . Danny told "I really like it [the play idea] and am excited about it. I'd love to explore it more. I'm grateful for the years I spent with Harold and he was a real mentor to me." The actor previously hosted a 2020 documentary about his friendship with the late writer called 'Danny Dyer on Pinter'. Speaking to the Guardian in 2013, Danny said his late pal taught him a lot about being an actor and set him up for a successful career in showbusiness. He said: "I miss him, you know, he was a good influence on me. He was the only person who I feared but loved. "He had faith in me, he suffered all my s*** because he knew I was a talented actor. He was a f****** tyrant, too, you know, but he could get away with it because he was so enchanting. He was a poet ... "If he didn't like [something] he'd tell me straight; there were no airs and graces about him. I learned so much from him that set me up for the rest of my career."
Perth Now
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Danny Dyer plunged into a 'spiral of madness' after Harold Pinter's death
Danny Dyer plunged into a "spiral of madness" following the death of his mentor Harold Pinter. The 'Human Traffic' star struck up a close relationship with the legendary playwright when he was cast in his play 'Celebration' - which debuted in London in 2000 - and Danny went on to appear in two more Pinter plays over the years but he was left totally devastated when his pal passed away aged 78 in 2008. Danny has now confessed he hit rock bottom after the loss after reading about it in a newspaper. During an appearance on BBC Radio 4's 'Desert Island Discs', he explained: "I hadn't spoke to him in a while. I did go off the rails for many years and I found out by looking on the front of a newspaper. "Again, I'd been on a bender and I was coming home and I was going, I think I was going to buy cigarettes at the petrol garage, and I see it in the paper: 'Pinter dead'. "This really sent me on a spiral of madness, really. The guilt of not being around him any more and just being lost, I was a bit of a lost soul, and again, angry at the world." It comes after Danny revealed he's working on a play based on his friendship with Pinter with the working title 'When Harry Met Danny' . Danny told "I really like it [the play idea] and am excited about it. I'd love to explore it more. I'm grateful for the years I spent with Harold and he was a real mentor to me." The actor previously hosted a 2020 documentary about his friendship with the late writer called 'Danny Dyer on Pinter'. Speaking to the Guardian in 2013, Danny said his late pal taught him a lot about being an actor and set him up for a successful career in showbusiness. He said: "I miss him, you know, he was a good influence on me. He was the only person who I feared but loved. "He had faith in me, he suffered all my s*** because he knew I was a talented actor. He was a f****** tyrant, too, you know, but he could get away with it because he was so enchanting. He was a poet ... "If he didn't like [something] he'd tell me straight; there were no airs and graces about him. I learned so much from him that set me up for the rest of my career."
