Corrie legend who played Jim McDonald boasts of wild nights out with Katie Price

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Coronation Street icon Charlie Lawson, who played Jim McDonald, has boasted of his wild nights out with Katie Price taking “anything that we had got our hands on”.

The Corrie legend told of his hell-raising lifestyle while playing hardcase Jim McDonald on the soap, reports the Mirror.The actor said he drank over a bottle of whisky a night and took cocaine, heroin, ecstasy, LSD, speed and cannabis, while writing in his autobiography That’s Life, So It Is.

Of his friendship with Katie Price, he writes: “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!“I have always had a soft spot for Pricey.

I’ve always felt that she has been let down by friends and boyfriends alike.”Charlie, 65, says he was introduced to “most drugs” and preferred cocaine and speed because “I wanted to be bouncing off the walls”.