Dean McCullough opens up about ‘drink and drug’ use while ‘homeless’ ‘Housemates of mine were using drugs and alcohol, and I got caught up in that world as well,’ admits the star.
“And sometimes I’d go out on a Thursday and stay out all weekend, going from party to party, friend’s house to friend’s house, just so that I wouldn’t be living in that volatile environment, and that kept happening, and I didn’t realise.
“Later on in life when I started working with Centrepoint (homelessness charity), they didn’t know about my homeless story, to be honest with you, I didn’t really understand the experience that I’d had until we started working together,” he said.
“And for quite a lot of my time living in London, I was moving from house to house, and some of those houses that I lived in were quite volatile.
Calling the experience “hidden homelessness” the radio presenter admitted to “being a bit wild, a bit free” when speaking to Good Morning Britain on Wednesday (18 Decemeber).
