90's Coronation Street star Eve Steele has opened up about her devastating childhood which saw her turn to binging booze and drugs from as young as 10-years-old.
The former soap star, 48, is set to take on the role of a drug addict in new play The Political History of Smack and Crack at Glasgow’s Tron Theatre.
She has admitted that playing the troubled character isn't too far away from the reality she lived after suffering a childhood fuelled by drug addiction.
Speaking to the Daily Record, Eve said she turned to alcohol at 10-year-old and soon started taking drugs at just 12-years-old.
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Eve opened up about hitting rock bottom as her life spiralled out of control when she became a heroin addict by the age of 20 after being introduced to acid and ecstasy at 12-years-old.
She reminisced about the converted flat she was staying in at 21-years-old and admitted that her life felt like a "slow suicide" when she lived there.
The star, who played a troubled supermarket worker in hit soap Corrie, said: "I remember being there – my life feeling like a slow suicide.
"I’d wanted to be a prima ballerina and, instead, here I was living not even a half life because of drugs."
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As she questioned her purpose in life, Eve admitted that she had thought about getting clean and ditching drugs but admitted she had no 'common sense or logic' as was so 'caught up in it all'.
Eve admitted she craved the 'acid house scene' and the culture of 'doing something wrong' became a big part of her identity.
She said: "I’d previously attended a drugs counselling service and signed up for methadone but I couldn’t stop using drugs so had ended up with two habits – methadone and heroin."
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Her troubled childhood left her unable to sleep so she admitted to sneaking downstairs to 'have a couple of big glasses of our home brew.'
As her addiction continued to spiral, the Manchester born teenager turned to petty crime to fund her increasingly dangerous habit.
The former Anna Malone actress described doing drugs and drinking alcohol as 'brilliant" but said as she continued to feel worse, she decided to turn to heroin.
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After removing herself from the 'environment', Eve checked herself into a drug treatment centre to get better and get clean.
30 years later, the actress turned stage performer still attends 12 Steps Narcotics Anonymous meetings but thanks acting for giving her something to focus on.
Eve collaborated with playwright Ed Edwards to set up the Most Wanted Theatre Company before he created new play The Political History of Smack and Crack.
Based on Ed's experiences of jail and rehab, the Daily Record reports the new production bares an uncanny resemblance to one from 1998 involving Anne Malone.
Eve who was in Corrie many years ago, playing the character Anne Malone, who famously died when she got locked in the freezers at Freshcos.
She died inside a freezer in Freschco's when her plan to get revenge on Curly Watts backfired.
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