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Thursday, 8 November 2007

Jason Donovan: I took cocaine because I liked it

Ex-Neighbours star is frank about drugs past

Jason Donovan

Jason Donovan admits that his former cocaine addiction simply stemmed from the fact that enjoyed taking the drug.

'I took cocaine because I liked it,' reveals the ex-Neighbours star.

'You can analyse it until you're blue in the face, but if I didn't like it, I wouldn't have taken it.'

Jason, 39, recently published his autobiography Between the Lines: My Story Uncut, which details his drug problem during the 1990s.

He explains that writing it was a difficult, but necessary, process that he hoped would not anger those close to him.

'Writing my memoirs was cathartic, but one of the toughest things was thinking about the people I wrote about who might not feel comfortable with it,' he tells The New Review.

Jason is now drug-free and happy with partner Angela and children Jemma, 7, and Zach, 6.

'I've had some dark periods in my life,' he says, 'but my head is pretty clear now.'

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