A Celebrity Traitors star was left ‘minutes from death’ after taking cocaine at a wild party.

Stephen Fry became the fifth faithful to be banished at the roundtable on the BBC series following another dramatic episode on Thursday.

However, during the early 90s, the 68-year-old actor suffered a terrifying scare at a boozy gathering.

According to his Blackadder co-writer Ben Elton, Stephen was rushed to hospital in the back of a black cab after ‘whacking cocaine up his nose’.

Writing in his book, What Have I Done?, Ben explained how Stephen started to ‘wheeze’ after taking cocaine in London.

In pages that were obtained by The Mirror, Ben wrote how he was ‘dragging’ the presenter up the hospital steps before he informed medics he had taken the ‘scarily illegal Class A drug.’ He said: ‘He

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