Tony Slattery revealed that he was taking cocaine that was contaminated with human faeces and cut glass.
He admitted that the drug made him ‘irrational and dis-inhibited’ and it got to the point when a toxicologist had to sit him down and make him aware of what he was putting into his body. ‘The tox report, that was a rare moment of clarity. It was a toxicologist from the University of Birmingham I think it was.
The Whose Line Is It Anyway star also recalled a chaotic warehouse party at which he started throwing furniture into the River Thames.Speaking of how his downward spiral began, he said: ‘The overwork came first – no holidays, no taking a break. Eventually you snap and replace it with something. In my case it was cocaine.’