Kennedy 'saw the devil' by hospital bedside while in grip of addictions

The actor has said that at his worst, he once woke up in New York unaware that he had flown there from Manchester.

Kevin Kennedy "saw the devil" by his hospital bedside in the grip of drink and drugs addiction.

The former 'Coronation Street' star - who played supermarket assistant Curly Watts in the ITV soap for 20 years - was given the ultimatum from doctors, "Stop drinking - or prepare to die," and admits he hit rock bottom after years of boozing and drug use. Bosses wrote him out of the show in August 1998 and sent him to rehab on the back of a cocaine and vodka binge.