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Inside story of Casualty star Amanda Mealing's cocaine crash: Friends tell what really led up to her downfall - as neighbours reveal her relationship with estranged husband
Her character, consultant Connie Beauchamp, suffered trials including a helicopter crash and drug dependency - and it seems Amanda Mealing's off-screen tribulations have been just as tragic.
Solicitor Lloyd Edwards explained to the court this week that Mealing had been battling through a divorce from her film producer husband Richard Sainsbury as well as grieving over the death of her father, her dog, and her best friend - believed to be comedian Paul O’Grady - at the time of the accident in January last year. Shortly after 10am, her black Mini was on the wrong side of the carriageway on the A1175 at Hop Pole, near Stamford in Lincolnshire when it collided with a Skoda driven by nurse and local councillor Mark Le Sage who was on his way to work. Mr Le Sage said he had been ‘severely affected’ by the crash, and was no longer able to continue in his job as a theatre nurse due to problems with his sight and hearing and pain in his legs, neck, shoulder, back and hip.
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