Coronation Street legend Kevin Kennedy drank a bottle of vodka on his way to work daily before show bosses "saved" his life, and he quit the booze.
The actor, 60, who played TV favourite Normal 'Curly' Watts for twenty years, turned his life around after suffering a seizure and waking up in an ambulance in the late 1990s.
The star's addiction was so severe that even when his wife Claire left him he wasn't upset, as he thought it was a good thing because he could drink on his own without hiding, he told The Sun.
