An ex-ITV Coronation Street star who made £120k a year for starring on the show says he now sleeps on his friends’ floors after claiming that ‘speaking out’ cost him his livelihood.
Sean Ward played Callum on the Weatherfield-based show before leaving the programme.
During the pandemic, the 35 year old clashed with some of his fans after sharing his anti-lockdown views on Twitter, which is now called X.
The TV star claims that he ‘lost everything he built’ and went from earning ‘120K a year to 12K a year.’
But despite this, he doesn’t regret ‘speaking out’ and claims he shared his controversial views because he felt it was a ‘moral necessity.’
In August of 2021, the Sun reported that Sean was arrested during an anti-vaccination protest in London.
The BBC Our Girl star, who acted alongside Michelle Keegan, was forced to give up his four bed house.
Sean took to Instagram to share his experience alongside a picture of him on a red carpet during the peak of his acting career.
He said: "I know deeply how lonely this can be and isolating, after trying to take my own life in 2018 after discovering the evil on this planet and no one caring."
He went on: "I decided using whatever s**tty little platform I'd built through my acting career to at least try sieve through the propaganda together and thereby sabotaging my own reasonably successful career- to go from earning 120K a year to 12K a year, sleeping on a mate's mattress is actually unfathomable to most people.
"I’m still building a life to feel proud of. It wasn’t much of a choice though as far as I’m concerned, but something of a moral necessity.
"And, of course, for the resourceful, there's always more than one way to earn a living, and I’ve built myself back up many times over the last 3 years when all hope was lost, so it doesn't feel like I've thrown away very much in fact.
"I always will return to acting. When the time is right. But my inner pain losing everything that I built was hard and I have admittedly spiralled out of control many times.
"Especially after losing my Grandad. So it’s still an ongoing process not to numb myself with alcohol and drugs. I haven’t fallen into that horrible path now for months. "
He concluded with: "So I am proud of myself and anyone else feeling the same. You’re never alone. We all have shown we care. And that keeps me going. Thank you. Seany x."
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