Jonathan Ross has spoken of how fame sent him into a spiral of depression and heavy drinking.The 47-year-old presenter, who is reportedly on an £18 million deal with the BBC, said he began sinking into depression when he started doing shows which he didn't like.
Millionaire presenter: Jonathan Ross, says he struggled to cope when he was out of the limelight and descended into heavy drinking and depression
Ross said: 'The truth is that fame is almost definitely not what you'd expect it to be at all.
'The depressing thing - or one of the depressing things - about fame is how quickly you get used to it and start to take it for granted.
'At first you can't quite believe your luck, but after a while you only notice it when it's not there, and even then your reaction isn't that you were lucky to have had it at all, but rather how unfair it is that you can't enjoy it every day, for ever.
'Jimmy Tarbuck once said to me "Getting there's easy, but staying there's hard".'
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