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Stephen Fry admits to taking cocaine at Buckingham Palace

“I take this opportunity to apologise unreservedly," Fry writes in his latest autobiography, More Fool Me.

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2014-09-27_0151Stephen Fry has admitted that he took cocaine at Buckingham Palace during a 15-year addiction to the drug.

In his latest set of memoirs, the QI host lists scores of prestigious British institutions where he took the narcotic, including the House of Lords, the House of Commons and BBC Television Centre.

The claims come in his latest autobiography, More Fool Me, include the 1980s and 1990s when he was appearing in Blackadder, A Bit of Fry and Laurie and the 1997 biopic Wilde.

“I take this opportunity to apologise unreservedly, to the owners, managers or representatives of the noble and ignoble premises and to the hundreds of private homes, offices, car dashboards, tables, mantelpieces and available polished surfaces that could so easily have been added to this list of shame,” he wrote.

“You may wish to have me struck off, banned, black balled or in any other way punished for past crimes; surely now is the time to reach for the phone, the police or the club secretary.

“How can I explain the extraordinary waste of time and money that went into my 15-year habit?

“Tens if not hundreds of thousands of pounds, and as many hours, sniffing, snorting and tooting away time that could have been employed writing, performing, thinking, exercising, living.”

He also reveals that he was pulled over by police for drink-driving the night before recording the final episode of Blackadder Goes Forth – with three grams of cocaine in his pocket.

Fry has been a well-documented diagnosis of bipolar disorder.

Source: RadioTimes

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  1. A family member suffered from manic depression, as it was called at the time. Dreadful for the sufferer, but perhaps just as bad for the family who had to deal with the consequences of the manic behaviour.
    I wasn’t surprised to hear about Stephen Fry.
    But why on earth go public with a confession? It’s almost like boasting….

  3. David just said bipolar disorder, not bipolar I. Bipolar I, bipolar II and cyclothymia are all subtypes of bipolar disorder. Manic depression is not a recognised term anymore. Only laypeople think of bipolar disorder as specifically referring to bipolar I. It is appropriate to refer to someone who is on the bipolar spectrum as having bipolar disorder regardless of the type.

  4. From what Fry has said recently Cyclothymia not Bipolar I (or Manic Depression). Though in his earlier autobiographies and a TV documentary he hinted it was Bipolar II (which used to be classified as a sub-type of Manic Depression).

    Bipolar Disorder is commonly used to refer to any of them or specifically Bipolar I.

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