Claire King, who played the woefully underused Erica Holroyd in Coronation Street, will be interviewed tonight on 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 she reveals 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 tonight at 10pm
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