Danny Dyer celebrated his 47th birthday had “a little doobie” in Amsterdam.
His visit to the city was a world away from his previous visit for his 21st birthday, and the Rivals star admits the Red Light district felt “unsettling” as he wandered around the canals, “having a mooch around”.
Danny, who turned 47 in July, travelled with wife Jo, his brother and his sister-in-law for a birthday trip, but laughs women advertising in windows were “still trying to coax me in”.
But Danny and his brother merely sampled “a nutty bit of weed”, in the form of the variety known as White Widow.
The former Eastenders star has been very open about his previous drug use, and though he rarely dabbles any more, he has evidently managed to maintain his tolerance levels.
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Channel 4)“I don’t spew,” he informs his daughter Dani, while they chatted together on their new podcast Live and Let Dyers. “That was always my problem back in the day, I always had too much of a good capacity for drugs.”
Danny did still feel the effects.
“I was quite f***ed when I got back,” he said. “It’s a fascinating place, where you can walk in a coffee shop, pick up their menu and instead of a bowl of nuts there’s a bowl of Rizlas. I’m not a big smoker, but I thought: ‘While I’m back there, I’ll have a little dabble.’ We had a little early doobie.”
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Brentwood Gazette)Danny went to rehab in South Africa in 2016 when he experienced a “wake up call”, and wrote in his autobiography: “I’ve always taken drugs and I probably always will, but there’s a difference between having the odd crafty bump up the snout as a reward for a job well done and letting it rule your life.”
A bonus episode of Live and Let Dyers will be available exclusively on Global Player on Thursdays.
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