Comedian Stephen Fry has admitted that he took cocaine at Buckingham Palace during the course of his 15 year addiction to the drug.
The claims come from his new book, More Fool Me which was released yesterday.
The TV host also revealed that he used the drug in some of the country’s other highly-respected venues including the Ritz, the House of Lords, the House of Commons and Windsor Castle.
“I take this opportunity to apologise unreservedly to the owners, managers or representatives of the noble and ignoble premises and to the hundreds of private homes, offices, car dashboards, tables, mantelpieces and available polished surfaces that could so easily have been added to this list of shame,” he stated.
“You may wish to have me struck off, banned, black-balled or in any other way punished for past crimes. Surely now is the time to reach for the phone, the police or the club secretary.”
Stephen Fry pictured with the Queen in February of this year. (Pic: Getty).
The tell-all book also reveals his run-ins with the law, and how he was stopped by police while in possession of cocaine – only barely avoiding charges.
The 57-year-old also reveals details of the “momentous night” in 1986 that he first took cocaine.
“I took it because I really liked it,” he wrote.
The book follows on from The Fry Chronicles which was published in 2010. The latest instalment of the presenter’s autobiography sees him acknowledge that the Class A drug addiction cost him hundreds of thousands of pounds.
“How can I explain the extraordinary waste of time and money that went into my 15-year habit?” he writes.
“Tens if not hundreds of thousands of pounds, and as many hours, sniffing, snorting and tooting away time that could have been employed writing, performing, thinking, exercising, living.”
