JASON DONOVAN - DONOVAN: 'COKE NEARLY KILLED ME'

DONOVAN: 'COKE NEARLY KILLED ME'

Australian pop star JASON DONOVAN refused to give up bingeing on cocaine - despite knowing it could kill him. The former soap star was on the road to self-destruction as he battled his deadly habit during the 1990s - and admits even his then fiancee, Angela Malloch, couldn't save him. In his new autobiography, Between the Lines: My Story Uncut, Donovan writes, "I loved my cocaine. "Line after line, gram after gram, night after night until I could physically take no more and my body would simply have to shut down, to switch itself off, so that I would stop. "I had fallen in love with Ange and we wanted to be together but as the months went by and I carried on like this, she simply couldn't cope." Donovan has now been clean for six years.