Monday 9 October 2017
Claire King reveals struggle with alcohol and debt
Claire King, who played the woefully underused Erica Holroyd in Coronation Street, has given an interview to Channel 5's In Therapy show in which she talks about being cheated on by her actor husband, and how it caused her to spiral into debt and alcoholism.
Claire opened up about how she has suffered heartbreak, depression, addiction and near financial ruin. And, The Mirror says, she revealed that the 2004 breakdown of her marriage to Peter Amory – her on-screen stepson Chris Tate in Emmerdale – was what set it off.
She said: “He liked a drink but he was also gambling as well. I mean big gambling. I knew he always gambled but not in that way. Lose your house money, lose everything money. I was £9,000 short of paying my mortgage off and then suddenly, poof. It was just horrible and it was draining.”
They divorced after ten years of marriage when it emerged Amory had been cheating with Claire’s co-star Samantha Giles, who played Bernice Blackstock in Emmerdale.
Claire spoke to addiction counsellor Mandy Saligari about the painful split for Channel 5’s In Therapy, which airs on Friday this week.
You can watch Claire's interview in the show In Therapy on Channel 5 this Friday night at 10pm.
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2 comments:
It seems there was more drama backstage at Emmerdale in those years than on screen.
'Woefully underused' indeed. I interviewed Claire King in 2014 and I thought she was really lovely. She laughed a lot, she was charming and did her best to answer questions as well as she could.
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What a terrible shame that she has had these troubles in her personal life. Hope something really good happens for her, soon.
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