A look at the dizzying highs and terrible lows of Stephen Fry’s life

His recent rant about God’s lack of compassion sent social media into overdrive as Stephen Fry just doesn’t do dull says Gráinne McGuinness

STEPHEN FRY’s most recent memoir can be read for a look at the glamorous lifestyle of a wealthy, successful actor in 1990’s Britain, but also gives insight into the underlying despair and addiction that dominated the life of the Blackadder star throughout the period.

In More Fool Me, Fry names various places where he took cocaine while a user between 1986 and 2001. Besides a long list of exclusive clubs and hotels, Fry snorted lines in TV studios and on film sets and in the offices of some of Britain’s most high-profile publications, from The Daily Telegraph to Vanity Fair.