Danny Dyer has opened up about the moment he realised that he needed to give up drugs, and no, it wasn’t after watching one of his own performances on TV.

The former Eastenders star and Football Factory legend, 47, revealed that he could not work out how to put his jeans on following a night of partying, which prompted him to change his ways.

Dyer told Louis Theroux about the moment he knew he was ‘destroying’ his life after celebrating a win at the National Television Awards:

‘I just could not work out how to get my jeans on.

‘I was just sitting on my en-suite toilet trying to work out what leg goes in what.’

‘I’ve sort of had many of them moments over the years of me being completely off my head.

‘But that one really resonated with me.

‘It was more because I looked up, my wife was just watching me, and she looked shattered, and she looked ill.’

I’m not sure if that means she was coked up as well or whether she looked ill out of exasperation at the state of Danny Dyer, but it obviously had a big impact on the guy and he decided right there and then that he wasn’t going to sniff another line for as long as he lives.

I mean, this is Danny Dyer we’re talking about, so never say never, but from the sounds of it, he truly is done with the nose candy:

‘It was just this moment; I thought, “S**t, you’re going to die. You’re going to kill yourself. You’re not happy. You’re spanking all your money on drugs. You’re destroying everything around you”.’

Danny revealed that at one point in their marriage, his wife Jo kicked him out of the house which he acknowledges she had ‘every right to do’, given he would disappear on benders for days at a time.

At one point things got really, really bad for his career too:

‘I had bailiffs [coming round], no one would hire me, and the more I’m doing these club appearances, the more drugs I’m taking, and drink, so I’m in this weird spiral.’

It does make you wonder how Danny Dyer’s life and career would have ended up if he was never addicted to cocaine? Definitely wouldn’t be the Danny Dyer that we all know and love, and might not even have become an actor in the first place. After all, he’s essentially played himself throughout his entire career, hasn’t he?

At this point though, surely he doesn’t need to be a coke head in real life to play one on TV, so fair play to the guy for finally kicking the habit. It’s not easy!

For the Aussie tourist who got pulled over by police in Bali and tried to pass off his cocaine as ‘Panadol’, click HERE. Nice try lad.