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James: Wild time was good for me

Comic’s partying ‘helped in long term’

- BY ASHLEIGH RAINBIRD Deputy Showbiz Editor ashleigh.rainbird@mirror.co.uk

JAMES Corden has told how he got lost in partying after finding fame, but says it was “wonderful” in the long run.

The comic, 39, felt like a “bomb dropped” on him when his TV series Gavin & Stacey took off just after he split with Shelley White, his girlfriend of eight years. But he insisted: “There is nobody who hasn’t felt a bit lost at some point. Any one of those things would be a disruption in your life. Both at the same time is just like dropping a bomb on your world.”

He told Attitude magazine: “In truth, that can be a wonderful thing for you in the long term. You’ve got to go and explore all the things that you might want to explore in order to find out what you really want.”

The dad of three, who tells of “snogging” Radio 1’s Nick Grimshaw on nights out, has spoken of “brattish” behaviour after Gavin & Stacey became a hit. In 2008 he said he should have got three TV Baftas, not two.

In his 2011 memoirs he called the speech “ungrateful and brattish”, adding: “It got so bad I was being rude to my agent.” That year, he revealed he previously had therapy.

Attitude magazine is available in print and online today.

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