Irish Sunday Mirror

Bacon vows to quit weed and alcohol

- BY KAREN ROCKETT

Bacon cured TV host Richard Bacon has promised to quit cannabis and booze after he nearly died last month.

After waking from a week-long coma he says he is re-evaluating life – but still can’t look in the mirror.

Richard, 42, who had a mystery illness, said: “In LA, I’ve been smoking weed. It’s legal over there.

“I’ll be more focused than before. I’ll be a better employee, a better dad.

“I’ll stop drinking, stop the weed. I drink too fast.”

Richard, sacked from Blue Peter in 1998 for taking cocaine, was put in a coma at Lewisham Hospital after hallucinat­ing on a flight from LA to London.

The married dad of two said: “I don’t like to look at my body in the mirror. It’s so gaunt and emaciated.” Mick Jagger

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