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26th Aug 2001 - WENN
Up-and-coming movie star Laura Fraser quit her cocaine
hell after an ecstasy tablet killed a talented drama
school classmate. The 26-year-old actress, who stars in
the new blockbuster Knight's Tale, A (2001), admits she
nearly fell victim to drugs and wild parties.
And she only stopped using drugs months after the death
of her ex-classmate, ANNETTE MCCALLUM. The pair attended
the same SCOTTISH YOUTH THEATRE summer school in 1992,
when they were teenage hopefuls. But while Laura went on
to Hollywood success with appearances alongside Leonardo
DiCaprio in Man In The Iron Mask, The (1998), 21-year-
old Annette's life was destroyed by drugs.
She died in 1998 at a disco in Lanarkshire, England,
after taking an ecstasy tablet. And now Laura has
admitted her own drugs habit was so bad that at one stage
she thought she might be losing her mind.
She says, "I was going mad. Just started going
insane. Completely paranoid. Not knowing what was going
on. Not able to concentrate, not able to communicate. I
felt so alienated from existence and just didn't know
what was happening. "
And since giving up drugs, Laura's a happier person. She
adds, "Now my life is completely different from the
way it was a few years ago. I don't see the same people,
I don't see the same things. "
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