Danan says Celebrity Love Island bosses donated Valium to help reduce drugs

The former American film actor, Paul Danan, claimed that Celebrity Love Island chefs had helped him cope with the withdrawal of his drug, when he had appeared in the series.

The former Hollyoaks actor had participated in the 2005 ITV show, which was the first series. He now claims to have received Valium to combat the withdrawal symptoms of the drug.

The series was based in Fiji for this series and Paul claimed that he had taken a number of "party drugs" before flying to the island and said that he "shaking and shaking" from the comedown.

Addressing The Sun, Paul revealed some of the reasons for his erratic behavior in the villa, which led to a potentially violent confrontation with the former Westlife bodyguard, Fran Cosgrave.

The show was criticized for its subsequent care, the tragic suicide of Mike Thalbaditis highlighting the mental health problems of the ancient Love Islanders.

Speaking of his stint in the series, Paul said: "I was mentally fine, it was more:" Do you have any problems? "

"At that time, I did not know that I probably had some addiction problems, I guess he just thought," You seem to be fine. "

It turned out that it was just a front and that cameras were turning, Paul was starting to feel "serious withdrawals" of drugs.

To help him, Paul revealed: "They gave me Valium, it just muffled me and the next day everything was fine and that was all.

"It was the end of my kind of joke I did not even know."

Paul also claimed that the show producers had decided to feed him with alcohol, despite staying in drug rehab and that he had become "unpredictable" by drinking.

This was proved when Paul had a drunken clash with Fran Cosgrove, who saw him evicted from the villa by the safety of the show.

Speaking on the Berkhamsted Revisted podcast: A Teenage Diary, Paul said that he thought the producers were looking to get him drunk, as this would help improve ratings.

Paul said, "Maybe the reason they gave us more alcohol, is because they saw that people liked this drunken Danan, let's give him a little d & # 39; alcohol. .

"It was I who said to everyone," Come on, if you please, she is for us to let it go ".

"Everyone was watching cameras." I did not even notice the cameras, there were so many palm trees that you do not really see any cameras. "

Speaking of the confrontation with Fran, Paul blamed the situation on a number of negative feelings that were manifesting themselves.

He continued, "I just lost it. I became very paranoid, I took a lot of drugs and it was one of those things where it was like, "Do not give me alcohol because it does not agree with me, but they do not did".

"I ended up having this big row, literally, the bouncers had my arms and legs pull me and I call this gay, Irish … Disgusting words, god knows what was coming out of my mouth, it was so fake. "

He says the bosses liked the notoriety earned by Love Island.

Paul said, "But it was a great TV for them because quite the audience ratings went up.They threw me out of the island, they took me fast to another island because Fiji is made up of small islands.

"I was sitting on this other island and wondering" What am I doing here? "They said," Paul, it's serious, we do not know if we can bring you back to life. "

"They had a vote, whether or not I was allowed to come back and I came back but the contract was that I did not have the right to drink anything, they calmed down by giving alcohol and when they did, they made sure I was fine. "

Mirror Online contacted ITV for a comment, which declined for privacy reasons.

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