Coronation Street actor dies after telling girlfriend he was 'getting on it'
dailyrecord.co.ukA promising actor died after taking a cocktail of drugs at a dance festival in Costa Rica, an inquest was told. A week into his holiday, Joseph Wandera, 27, suffered a seizure at an apartment in the beach resort of Tamarindo where he had been attending the BPM music festival in January 2022.
His mum, Claire Beatson, told Rochdale Coroners' Court on Tuesday, September 18, she was "shocked" to discover Joseph had taken ecstasy and admitted to his girlfriend he had consumed a concoction of unknown drugs called "Pink Stuff", reports the Mirror.
The day before his tragic death, the inquest was told how the actor, who once appeared on Coronation Street, sent a text message to his girlfriend back in England, Alison Maloney, which said he was "getting on it like mad", the MEN reports.
On the morning of the day of his death, January 16, Joseph told his girlfriend: "Not gonna lie, I don't know what was in the f***ing thing that I f***ing took.
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