At the height of it, the TV presenter was rushed to hospital in a drug-induced ‘psychosis’ after taking tramadol, morphine and alcohol.
‘It was insane,’ he said. ‘It sends you crazy. It was to the point of hearing things, seeing things in the garden.’
Speaking to The Sun on Sunday about his secret two-year addiction, he added: ‘I was at the point where anything – prescription drugs, non-prescription drugs – I would take. And take them with alcohol, which is ridiculous. The doctors told me I could have killed myself.’
He revealed that he had to be rushed to hospital at 5am after bingeing on drugs while recovering from a knee operation in June. He was in such a bad state that he had to phone his wife Lisa upstairs at home to call an ambulance.
It was after this that McPartlin, 41, decided to tell Lisa, 40, and his co-star and best friend Declan Donnelly about his addiction and go into rehab.
He said that at first he did not believe he had a problem but ended up hiding his addiction because he was embarrassed about it.
McPartlin, who presents Saturday Night Takeaway, I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! and Britain’s Got Talent with Donnelly, told the newspaper that his problems began after he damaged his knee in 2014 and he started using prescription painkillers. He revealed that he became addicted to tramadol – an opioid with similar properties to morphine – within weeks of starting the medication, and had to take more and more to get through work commitments.
And when he flew to the US for the Saturday Night Takeaway series finale last year, American doctors prescribed more painkillers. ‘I don’t know what they were but they were hell of a lot stronger,’ he said. ‘I brought them home with us and was taking them as well.’
McPartlin finally had excruciating knee surgery in June but while he was recuperating his addiction began to spiral out of control.
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