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Inside Tony Slattery’s ‘lifelong battle with dark demons’ amid claims £4,000-a-week cocaine habit killed him

The death of Tony Slattery has left TV fans stunned and now, the struggles he faced prior to his death are being revealed.

Ian Hamilton, Associate Professor at the University of York and expert on addiction, drugs and alcohol has shared an insight into Tony’s death. In wake of his death, friend and fellow comedian Stephen Fry has spoken out about such a tragic loss and the “irony” of Tony’s passing, despite recently emerging from his lifelong “battle” with “dark demons”. Mark and Tony were together 40 years (Credit: BBC / Youtube)Mr Hamilton went on to say of overcoming addiction: “Obviously we’d encourage people to get into recovery and abstain but the damage may already be done to their physical health.

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