With roles as a soap siren in Emmerdale and a tough prison governor in Bad Girls, Claire King is no stranger to drama.
And off-screen, the stars life has imitated her art with ordeals that could have been dreamed up by her scriptwriters.
Claire, 54, who was Kim Tate in Emmerdale, has bravely opened up about how she has suffered heartbreak, depression, addiction and near financial ruin.
And she revealed that the 2004 breakdown of her marriage to Peter Amory her on-screen stepson Chris Tate in the ITV soap was what set it off.
She said: He liked a drink but he was also gambling as well. I mean big gambling.
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I knew he always gamb…
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