Dancing on Ice star Patsy Palmer admits she smoked powerful cannabis before school run

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Dancing on Ice star Patsy Palmer, 50, has confessed to getting “stoned on skunk” before she was due to pick her children up from school.The Former EastEnders star was battling a serious drug addiction at the time.The star has opened up about some of her darkest moments before she got her addiction under control in her autobiography titled, All Of Me: Life, Love And Addiction.In the book, she admitted she was once so addicted to drugs that she chain smoked powerful skunk cannabis just before she had to pick up her kids from school.The mother-of-four recalled how she once hit rock bottom when she skipped a day of important meetings to stay home and watch This Morning on TV whilst smoking drugs and eating doughnuts.In September 2004, when Patsy was 32, she finally came to terms with the fact that she was a drug addict.  “My hands were shaking as I looked at the Rizla papers on the side,” she penned. “The night before, I’d put away the puff — my skunk weed, otherwise known as super-strong marijuana — on top of a cupboard, hoping that when I woke up in the morning I’d have forgotten about it.”She went on to explain how she felt “edgy” and “paranoid” and that - in a bid to distract herself - she attempted to vacuum the house.

However, things soon took a turn for the worse as moments later she ended up “on the couch, watching This Morning and smoking a big, fat joint”. “I’d promised myself never to smoke in the house because of the kids,” she continued. “Didn’t want any traces lingering for them.

Wanted to be extra careful because my little girl had chest problems.“By midday I was stoned. But it was OK because I could eat something and be fine by 3.30pm, when I needed to leave for the school run.“Three hours later I had.