Danny Dyer continued rehab after letter from daughter Dani

In United Kingdom
May 11, 2025

Annabel Rackham

Culture reporter

The BBC Danny Dyer sits smiling in front of a disco background of the desert island.BBC

Danny Dyer said he was ready to get out of rehabilitation, but stayed after receiving a letter from home.

Danny Dyer said that receiving a letter from his daughter Dani while in a rehabilitation center in 2016 was what convinced him to continue his treatment.

Speaking to the Discs of the Desert Island of the BBC Radio 4, the actor said that “there was” enough “of the treatment he had received and that” he was going to go. “

“Then they read a letter from home, my daughter Dani, and made me sit in that seat,” said Lauren Laverne presenter.

While they do not share what their 20 -year -old daughter had written, she said “he grew up and understood that this is my life and fame and all that is toxic.”

Dyer said Dani’s letter made him reflect on the pain he had caused to his family and commit to continue his treatment in the facilities in South Africa.

Dani Dyer jumped to Fame in Love Island, winning the 2018 series. Since then, she and her father have appeared together in Celebrity Goggebox, a series of Italian trips, and in her podcast ordered with the Dyers.

‘Many bad decisions’

Danny Dyer in an Easters scene in 2022

Danny Dyer played Mick Carter at BBC Soap Easters from 2013 to 2022

Danny Dyer, who went to fame in the 1999 film Human Traffic, became one of the most collectible stars on British television and cinema.

In his interview, the 47 -year -old spoke about how fame has affected his personal life, which led him to make “many bad decisions.”

He said that at a stage of his career, he was “doing many drugs.”

“Sometimes I would go to the already DJ nightclubs, but in general, I just jumped from balconies and paid me a lot of money to do it,” Hey added.

Dyer says that looking back is “horrible” and that his days of “hedonism” and “crazy behavior” have ended.

He said that one of his inflection points occurred in 2013, when the role of Queen Vick Mick Carter in Astenders was sacrificed, which he took because “he had no money.”

“He had sheriffs [coming round]No one would hire me and the more I am making appearances in the thesis club, the more drugs drink and drink, so I am in this strange spiral. “

Four years later, he made the decision to go to Reab in Cabo del Cabo Duration and a prize show after the party at his home.

“I remember that I had this moment when I was sitting in my bathroom trying to find out how to put a pair of jeans, I was out of my head.

“I looked up, looked at my wife and I could see how tired he looked and could listen to the children running down the stairs, and I thought ‘I need to solve my life,” he added.

Dyer says he made him realize how addiction “affects so many people around you, not just yourself.”

Dyer, who is nominated for the best performance of male comedy in the Sunday Bafta Awards on Sunday for his role in Mr. Bigstuff, also experienced success with Disney’s rivals this year.

He said that much of the work he touched in the early stages of his career was due to the lack of money he had and the additional pressure of becoming a father for the first time with his now wife Joanne at the age of 19.

“I made some films, but I put money and I was desperate to get on the property scale,” he said.

“I still lived on a council farm with my daughter and Jo.”

Dyer says he was then offered a documentary series called The Real Football Factors and “I couldn’t believe the money he sacrificed me.”

“I can’t see them again now [the documentaries]I shuddered them, but I needed Earny, I needed to get a house and needed the right thing, “he added.

You can listen to the episode of Danny Dyer or the Discs of Desert Island in BBC Radio 4 at 10:00 on Sunday. Alternatively, an edited version of the program It will be available on BBC Sounds After it has leg transmission.