Ant Mcpartlin reveals addiction to painkillers ‘nearly killed him’

Ant Mcpartlin has revealed how he nearly died after battling with depression, alcohol and substance abuse.

The TV star – one half of Ant and Dec – entered rehab in June after struggling with a two-year addiction to superstrength painkillers following a knee operation in 2015.

He explained how he had been hiding pills in different places to avoid his addiction being detected before a conversation with wife Lisa and TV partner Declan Donnelly got him on the road to recovery. “I was at the point where 0 Ant Mcpartlin revealed his battle with painkiller addiction anything – prescription drugs, non-prescription drugs – I would take,” he told The Sun on Sunday newspaper in his first interview since leaving rehab.

“And take them with alcohol, which is ridiculous. The doctors told me, ‘You could have killed yourself ’.”

Earlier this year, the 41-yearold asked Lisa to call an ambulance in the early hours of the morning after bingeing on tramadol, morphine and alcohol while recovering from a second knee operation in June.

He added: “I was insane. It sends you crazy.

“It was to the point of hearing things, seeing things in the garden and still the pain was getting worse.”

Following two months of rehab, the Britain’s Got Talent presenter is clean of all drugs other than paracetamol for the first time since 2014.