Welsh actor Richard Mylan recently admitted to a 20-year addiction to heroin. Richard, 48, who has been in recovery for 10 years has said that he was one of a "number of many functioning professional addicts." To read more about Richard's 20-year battle with addiction, click here.
The star, who now wants to raise awareness for drug addiction, has a long and successful career but who exactly is Richard Mylan? Mylan, born in November 1973, was born in Swansea. Acting wasn't always the path that he set out to pursue, having left his hometown to study dance in London at the age of 12.
His passion for footwork would later land him his first professional acting role in Andrew Lloyd-Webber's roller-skating musical, Starlight Express. Having initially played the smaller character of 'Flat-Top', he would later land a bigger role as, 'Electra the Electric Train'.
