'Child porn' comic: My self-hatred.COMIC actor Chris Lang-ham, facing 15 child porn charges, has told how he suffers from depression and self-hatred. The BBC's Thick Of It star said: "It's just the way things are. I'm a lacking person who's a bit of a disappointment. "When I'm dead I'll be perfect. But up until that point... just to be OK is something I crave." Bafta winner Langham, 57, made the comments in an interview a month before he was charged with downloading downloading - download indecent images of children. Police raided his home in Carnbrook, Kent, as part of Operation Ore Operation Ore is a large-scale international police operation that commenced in 1999 intending to indict thousands of users of websites featuring child pornography. In the United Kingdom, it has led to 7,250 suspects identified, 4,283 homes searched, 3,744 arrests, 1,848 charged, . The dad-of-five told of his struggles to give up booze Booze sold cheap whiskey in a log-cabin bottle. [Am. Hist.: Espy, 152–153] See : Drunkenness and drugs. He said: "I find life difficult. If it weren't for tools I use to get me through the next hour, I don't know how I would deal with it. "No wonder I drank." |
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