When Patsy Palmer landed the role of fiery market trader Bianca Jackson in EastEnders at just 21, her off-screen life was already in chaos.
Living in a tiny damp flat in London’s East End as a single mum to baby son Charley, the star once bravely admitted that her life revolved around alcohol and drugs.
Patsy – who first went on stage at the age of six – started drinking at eight, sniffing solvents at 11, and snorting cocaine at 13. "By my 20s I was bingeing my life away on cocaine, ecstasy, and enough vodka and Laurent Perrier Champagne to quench a small village's thirst for several hours," she wrote in her autobiography, All Of Me "I would be out of my head for two or three days in a row - whole chunks of time were lost.
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