STARING up through a dazed haze from an ambulance stretcher, Kevin Kennedy knew if he didn't give up drinking, it'd kill him.
The Coronation Street legend, who played binman Norman ‘Curly’ Watts, had collapsed and suffered a seizure after going two days without alcohol in May 1998.
Fresh from a holiday "hammering" the booze in Barbados with wife Clare, Kevin had decided to go cold turkey. While out shopping together on a hot day in Didsbury, Manchester, he downed a Diet Coke and moments later suffered a "massive blackout-come-stroke".
He tells The Sun: “I came to in the ambulance and it scared the hell out of me. I knew I would die if I carried on but emotionally I didn’t get it, the addiction was telling me it was normal.” Weeks later Kevin was packed off to The Priory rehab clinic after that "first moment of clarity” pushed him to finally come clean about his secret drinking habit to Corrie bosses.
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