{"id":68897,"date":"2023-12-12T11:17:26","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T11:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/talkcelnews.com\/?p=68897"},"modified":"2023-12-12T11:17:26","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T11:17:26","slug":"itv-coronation-street-star-sleeping-on-friends-floor-after-speaking-out-cost-them-120k-salary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/talkcelnews.com\/tv-movies\/itv-coronation-street-star-sleeping-on-friends-floor-after-speaking-out-cost-them-120k-salary\/","title":{"rendered":"ITV Coronation Street star sleeping on friends floor after speaking out cost them \u00a3120k salary"},"content":{"rendered":"

An ex-ITV Coronation Street star who made \u00a3120k a year for starring on the show says he now sleeps on his friends\u2019 floors after claiming that \u2018speaking out\u2019 cost him his livelihood. <\/p>\n

Sean Ward played Callum on the Weatherfield-based show before leaving the programme. <\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

The TV star claims that he \u2018lost everything he built\u2019 and went from earning \u2018120K a year to 12K a year.\u2019 <\/p>\n

But despite this, he doesn\u2019t regret \u2018speaking out\u2019 and claims he shared his controversial views because he felt it was a \u2018moral necessity.\u2019<\/p>\n


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In August of 2021, the Sun reported that Sean was arrested during an anti-vaccination protest in London. <\/p>\n

The BBC Our Girl star, who acted alongside Michelle Keegan, was forced to give up his four bed house.<\/p>\n

Sean took to Instagram to share his experience alongside a picture of him on a red carpet during the peak of his acting career. <\/p>\n

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."<\/p>\n

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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. <\/p>\n

"I\u2019m still building a life to feel proud of. It wasn\u2019t much of a choice though as far as I\u2019m concerned, but something of a moral necessity. <\/p>\n

"And, of course, for the resourceful, there's always more than one way to earn a living, and I\u2019ve 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. <\/p>\n

"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. <\/p>\n

"Especially after losing my Grandad. So it\u2019s still an ongoing process not to numb myself with alcohol and drugs. I haven\u2019t fallen into that horrible path now for months. "<\/p>\n

He concluded with: "So I am proud of myself and anyone else feeling the same. You\u2019re never alone. We all have shown we care. And that keeps me going. Thank you. Seany x." <\/p>\n<\/p>\n