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Paul Danan looked worlds away from his old self as he appeared on "The Dozen with Liam Tuffs podcast.

The former Hollyoaks star, 45, spoke about his past drug addiction, his near-fatal heroin overdose and bedding over one thousand women during the candid interview.

The actor, who played Sol Patrick in the soap, sported thick blonde curly hair and looked noticeably different from his soap days when he sported a buzzcut. 

During the chat, Paul recalled overdosing on heroin shortly after he returned from a rehab stint in South Africa after his time on Hollyoaks. 

Speaking about the ordeal, he said: 'It took a bad route, a very dark route. Drugs, I had an overdose. I came out of rehab in South Africa. The psychiatrist had put me on all these anti-psychotics. I was there for months. 

'I got back home and my parents were so proud of me. I was fat and horrible and didn't feel like myself.'

Paul went out to get some cocaine but also ended up buying heroin which he had never taken before.

He said: 'They gave me my keys and car and I detoured and got some gear, some coke. I got a bag of brown [heroin] which I'd never done before. 

'I snorted it and shouldn't have snorted it because that's dangerous. I ended up having an overdose really bad.'

Paul returned home and went to bed but his parents realised something was wrong and called an ambulance.

He said: 'My mum found me and I couldn't breath, it was terrible. Apparently my mum heard me gagging on my last breath. She came into the room and couldn't wake me up. 

'My little brother was next door which was the saddes thing about it because still to this day he's been traumatised by it. 

'She called the ambulance and luckily they were parked down the end of

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