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		</div><p>Ant McPartlin has revealed how he nearly died after battling with depression, alcohol and substance abuse.</p>
<p>The TV star &#8211; one half of Ant and Dec &#8211; entered rehab in June after struggling with a two-year addiction to super-strength painkillers following a knee operation in 2015.</p>
<p>He explained how he had been hiding pills in different places to avoid his addiction being detected before a conversation with wife Lisa and TV partner Declan Donnelly got him on the road to recovery.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;I was at the point where anything &#8211; prescription drugs, non-prescription drugs &#8211; I would take,&#8221;</i> he told The Sun on Sunday newspaper in his first interview since leaving rehab.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;And take them with alcohol, which is ridiculous. The doctors told me, &#8216;You could have killed yourself&#8217;. &#8220;</i></p>
<p>Earlier this year, the 41-year-old asked Lisa to call an ambulance in the early hours of the morning after bingeing on tramadol, morphine and alcohol while recovering from a second knee operation in June.</p>
<p>He told the newspaper: <i>&#8220;It was five in the morning and I was screaming in pain so I rang Lisa.</p>
<p>&#8220;She was upstairs because I was living in the living room because I couldn&#8217;t get around.</p>
<p>&#8220;I said, &#8216;You&#8217;re going to have to call me an ambulance. I&#8217;m in a bad way&#8217;.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>He added: <i>&#8220;I was insane. It sends you crazy. It was to the point of hearing things, seeing things in the garden and still the pain was getting worse.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I was depressed through the whole thing because I was in pain and immobile.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>Following two months of rehab, the Britain&#8217;s Got Talent presenter is clean of all drugs other than paracetamol for the first time since 2014.</p>
<p>He would visit different private doctors to get more tramadol prescribed, and recalled one occasion on Saturday Night Takeaway when he and Dec were performing with Take That.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;I knew there was a dance routine involved. I took a load of stuff that day just to get through the day.</p>
<p>&#8220;And I couldn&#8217;t feel anything on the night. But that did a lot of damage.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;From the old lady who lies about her Valium supply to someone like me who was necking tramadol to the point of psychosis, in the end it&#8217;s the same thing. It&#8217;s addiction.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>The issue came to a head earlier this year during Britain&#8217;s Got Talent when he delayed a second knee operation to continue working on the ITV show.</p>
<p>After undergoing surgery following the show&#8217;s final, McPartlin said he was &#8220;just done&#8221;, adding: &#8220;it was horrendous&#8221;.</p>
<p>He added: <i>&#8220;Dec came around and he kind of knew it was at the point where I needed help.</p>
<p>&#8220;Once I admitted I was in a bad way, they then helped get a team together because obviously I wasn&#8217;t in a fit state to do it myself.</p>
<p>&#8220;We had an hour&#8217;s conversation then I packed my bag and I went.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m lucky because I have the means to do that. But there are a lot of people who don&#8217;t. So I&#8217;m very grateful.&#8221;</i></p>
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