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Casualty star Amanda Mealing is handed a career lifeline after her cocaine-fuelled car crash left a nurse with life-changing injuries


Casualty star, Amanda Mealing, has been offered a life-line back onto our television screens following her cocaine-fuelled car crash that left a male nurse unconscious.

During the court hearing in March of this year, her solicitor revealed how she'd turned to cocaine while going through a divorce from film producer Richard Sainsbury, and dealing with the traumatic deaths of her father, her best friend and her dog. She had taken the Class A drug the night before the smash and was driving home when her car drifted across the road and hit an oncoming Skoda driven by nurse Mark Le Sage, who was seriously injured and had to change his career as a result. The actress, 57, flew out to Malta earlier this month to film a special episode of Channel 5 drama Good Ship Murder alongside its stars Catherine Tyldesley and Shayne Ward

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