It was a certain look on his mother’s face which ultimately made Robson Green yank himself from the grip of drink and drugs.
Fame hit the actor with a jolt some 30 years ago, after he and fellow star Jerome Flynn sang Unchained Melody in the hit ITV drama Soldier Soldier, only for Simon Cowell to make pop stars of them and catapult them to the top of the charts.
A spiral into addiction grew as work took over and he lost his sense of self, along with his connection with home and his mining family in the North East.
