I had a breakdown after I quit Coronation Street – I had no job and no money, says Charlie Condou
thesun.co.ukCORONATION Street star Charlie Condou revealed he had a breakdown after leaving the soap including being penniless and unemployed.
The actor, 49, - who played Marcus Dent on the ITV soap from 2007 to 2014 - opened up on the struggles he faced after leaving Corrie, including "the terrible times in my life." Charlie who is dad to Georgia, 12, and Hal, nine, with husband Cameron Laux, quit the soap so he could be a "present" parent. "There were a lot of great things about being at Corrie and it was a hard decision to make," he told Brood. "I had been deliberating it for months, because in a sense you’ve got job security – you can potentially be there for a long time; you know when you can take your holidays, and all those things." But with his kids living in London and him working in Manchester, the distance was too great and it was hard for him only seeing them on weekends. "I was giving that role up with essentially nothing to go into," Charlie explained. "I would come home on Friday evening, and I’d have to go back to Manchester again on a Sunday afternoon.
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