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Headline:

Frankie: My drugs and drink nightmare

Synopsis:

OUTRAGEOUS TV comic Frankie Boyle last night confessed to an 11-year drink and drugs binge that threatened to wreck his skyrocketing career.

* I took LSD, dope and E
* Drank till I passed out
* My critics can **** off

Mock The Week star Frankie was once crippled by shyness and turned to booze, cannabis, ecstasy and LSD for help.

It will stun the BBC2 show’s four million fans who only know him as the fearless joker taking on politicians, terrorists-and even the Queen’s naughty bits.

Frankie, 36, admitted: “Everybody in Scotland f***ing drinks and it’s hard to tell when you’ve got a problem. By the time I was a student I was trying to get p***ed five or six days a week, drinking up to ten pints a night. I knew I was an alcoholic.”

Publish date:

9 November 2008

Author:

Jennifer Wiley

Source:

News of the World

Media:

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