EASTENDERS legend Danny Dyer admitted he'd have sleepless nights "smoking crack" at the height of his drug addiction. The actor, 46, revealed that froze on stage during a Broadway show after a drug bender the night before. Danny said he was left in tears after the performance after realising that he had messed up and suffered a panic attack backstage.
"I'd never been to New York. And so when we transferred from the Almeida to the Lincoln center in New York, I got very excited," Danny said on How to Fail with Elizabeth Day and bonus episode Failing With Friends. "Well, I took a lot of drugs out there.
And this is the other thing I'd never dried. I take it very seriously, my work, and I love it, and I strive to be better every night. "And, you know, I'd never got in a situation, I'd heard about people that had dried on stage, you know, because it's a massive thing and all that, and it never happened to me.
"Anyway, I thought that I could sit up all night, smoking crack, and then walk on stage, and of course you can't fucking do that, it's a ridiculous idea. "And I interjected. Like I'd done, you know, many, many nights before, you know, like I've done this play so much, matinees, and I just didn't have a clue what to say.
"And the worst thing was the other actors, who knew I'd been out, looking at me. "I come behind their little bonkette thing and I interject and they all turn to me. "So their, their faces are away from the audience and it was just their horror.
"As if to go, c.
