Real life JR keeps reminder of drinking demons

Larry Hagman has a constant reminder of his boozy past - the picture of the man whose liver kept the former Dallas star alive.

Larry Hagman has a constant reminder of his boozy past - the picture of the man whose liver kept the former Dallas star alive.

Hagman, who played oil tycoon JR Ewing in the hit 1970s and 1980s soap, needed a liver transplant after years of heavy drinking almost cost him his life.

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