I got stoned on skunk before the school run, I was such an idiot and I’m amazed I survived, says Patsy Palmer

thesun.co.uk:

PATSY PALMER was once so addicted to drugs that she chain-smoked powerful skunk cannabis minutes before she was due to pick up her kids from school.

The mum-of-four, who played Bianca Jackson in EastEnders, also turned up for work on the BBC soap high on Ecstasy. She is “amazed” she survived.

Patsy, who has now reinvented  herself as a wellness guru in California, told in her autobiography how she hit an all-time low after skipping an important meeting to stay at home watching This Morning on TV while smoking dope and eating doughnuts.

It was on that day in September 2004 that she was unable to stop ­herself from taking drugs at home between school runs. Patsy recalled in her book, All Of Me, Life, Love And Addiction: “My hands were shaking as I looked at the Rizla papers on the side. “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.” READ MORE ON EASTENDERSSKATE IT IN Dancing on Ice top earners from Love Island, EastEnders & Towie stars revealedNOT TAKING THE MICK Police drop life-changing Mick Carter bombshell in EastEnders Patsy, now 50, says she felt “edgy” and “paranoid” and desperately tried to distract herself.