Charlie Lawson detailed his drug and alcohol-fuelled nights with Katie Price (Image: ITV)
icon Charlie Lawson has opened up about his raucous escapades with Katie Price.
The actor, famed for his role as Jim McDonald in the ITV soap, divulged details of his wild lifestyle in his autobiography ‘That’s Life, So It Is’.
He recounted consuming over a bottle of whiskey nightly and indulging in drugs including cocaine, heroin, ecstasy, LSD, speed, and cannabis.
The 65-year-old wrote fondly of his bond with former glamour model Katie, stating: “I had always got on well with her, although we had more often than not been three sheets to the wind, at 3am, under the influence of anything that we had got our hands on!”
He added: “I have always had a soft spot for Pricey. I’ve always felt that she has been let down by friends and boyfriends alike.”
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Charlie wrote fondly of his bond with Katie in his new autobiography (Image: ITV)
In the book, Charlie reflected on being introduced to “most drugs”, showing a preference for cocaine and speed because he “wanted to be bouncing off the walls”.
The former soap star also reminisced about his early days in acting, noting: “Drugs were everywhere.”
His weekends were a blur of travel and partying as he explained: “Every weekend I’d travel back to London on the last fast service to Euston and end up in some strange venue and party the whole night through with bags of speed and anything else we could get our hands on.
“Vast amounts of cocaine was available and clearly everyone, including myself, had partaken.”
The actor later described his first time trying acid as “a particularly brilliant adventure”, but after a bad experience with “chasing the dragon”, he never did it again.
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Charlie is famed for playing Jim McDonald in Coronation Street (Image: ITV)
Charlie also revealed that he and fellow star Phil Middlemiss were quite the party animals during their early years on the show.
He wrote: “The cardinal rule was never to be late. Especially if you were party animals like Philip and myself. I was constantly out all night on the lash. Life was a complete joy, as long as I could carry on without a care in the world. Cocaine was everywhere and we took full advantage of its availability.”
Later on, Charlie admitted: “My drinking had become very heavy. I never drank during the day but at night I was drinking over a bottle of whiskey. If there was anything else around I would buy it.”
The Northern Irish actor starred in more than 1,000 episodes of throughout the 1990s, having joined the soap in 1989.