Coronation Street’s Crackhead Craig Charles Is Saved
HARD luck on Faye Turney that her account of so much knickers, cigarettes and tears in Iran should coincide with Coronation Street actor Craig Charles’s story of drugs and sex.
The Mirror, as ever, watches the bigger picture while the Sun is distracted by tawdry stories of Big Brother does Iran.
Today, the “CORRIE CRACK ADDICT’S” wife Jackie tells all.
As husband Craig lay on a bed in a drugged stupor, Jackie “ripped off the blanket and flew at him”. Her fists pounded his chest. “Enough!” she yelled. “I’ve had enough! How can you do this to me? To the kids!”
We feel a need to remind readers that this is not Faye Turney talking. This is not “gutsy Faye” remembering the time she met President Ahmadinejad. The similarities are spooky but this is Jackie Craig telling all.
“I completely lost it and walloped him. He curled into ball and just kept crying ‘sorry, sorry, sorry’.”
President Ahmadinejad, sorry, cracked-up Craig Charles has hurt his wife. Jackie can take no more and “flees” the interview in tears.
Soon she returns. “Even though my marriage was collapsing, I never once took off my wedding ring…That’s not to say I didn’t think about leaving him, I did,” says Jackie. She left him three times.
But it didn’t work. And it wasn’t until Jackie saw those helpful Mirror pictures of Craig smoking crack in the backseat of a car that she realised the truth.
“I held my head in my hands and sobbed when I saw them,” says she. The pictures were a shock. And they were no less of a shock to Craig who was forced into “facing his demons”.
Craig speaks. “I hated myself. Hated what I was doing to my family.”
And the pictures? “I felt enraged at first. Then a heated mess of shame and guilt, then suicidal because I didn’t know if I could face the world as Crackhead Craig.”
Golly! Might it be that the Mirror’s expose of the soap actor’s recreational drug use could have led to his death?
Says Craig: “But those pictures made me answer for my appalling behaviour, face up to the fact I had a problem. So now I see that they saved me.”
Hurrah for the Daily Mirror, saviour of tired and emotional soap actors. But the paper should take care to know that not all troubled celebrities react in the same way and the Mirror may have to employ other tactics to save the fallen.
For now though, the paper basks in the glory of its latest success. Thanks to its caring heart Craig is no longer hooked on crack and addicted to premium rate sex chat lines, such as those highlighted in the Mirror’s classified sections.
A wife has her husband back. And Coronation Street has a clean and sober actor…
April 10th, 2007 at 7:46 pm
Please…please Iran KEEP Craig Charles….reading about his boring fu*cked up life is depressing most of the planet……
P.S Do you have a spare room or hole in the ground for Pete Doherty?
April 13th, 2007 at 2:00 pm
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July 23rd, 2007 at 7:40 am
This is really sad. I was enamoured with Craig Charles for a couple of years and it almost kind of hurts to see this going down the way it is. Oh and isn’t it peculiar how the Mirror had such a “play-by-play” of the evening Charles was caught? I suppose the situation is real but was there someone in the car recording the whole thing or what? I dunno…just kinda weird. NE way, I just hate to hear about this.
December 7th, 2007 at 5:49 pm
Craig Charles, is perhaps one of the most under-appreciated actors of his era. Yes, that kind of a claim sounds pretty broad but, it’s true. Obviously, to us Red Dwarf nuts, he’s certainly an icon but, beyond that, his laid-back acting style, speaks volumes to the common man. The only thing keeping Craig Charles from the top of the heap is a decent script! Give him a decent script that allows him the opportunity to showcase his talent and I promise you the world will be praising him for his efforts.
Hang in there Craig-you’re career will launch (it’s just a matter of time. Just stay clean so you’ll be ready when it does! Cheers mate.