Love/Hate star Aoibhinn McGinnity has insisted she has never done drugs – over fears she’d die from an overdose.
The TV actor – who plays Trish in the show – said she is too much of a “nerdy pants” to indulge in the cocaine lifestyle seen in the gangland series.
And the 29-year-old especially worries that she could end up dying like Amy Winehouse or Cory Monteith after an overdose.
She said: “I’ve never done drugs. I’m a bit of a nerdy pants. It’s really sad when you hear that an actor or performer died and everybody is speculating that it must have been drugs.
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“I’m not putting myself on the same playing level as Hollywood actors, but I’m an actor too, and I’d hate to be tarnished with such a horrible brush.
“It’s not fair. Plus, one glass of wine gets me pretty much going. I’m a bit of a lightweight, so that’s enough for me.”
However Aoibhinn said she does slightly know what it feels like to be part of the gangland world on a gun-toting trip to Thailand.
She said: “I held a rifle in Thailand at a shooting range! It’s the heaviest thing I’ve ever, ever held. It actually scared me.”
Meanwhile, Aoibhinn admits that it can be extremely tough coming home after shooting the RTE series.
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She told VIP Magazine: “I wouldn’t be coming home feeling very dark, but the more you do it, the better you get at switching off.
“You keep that energy for a scene – however many takes you need to do – because you just want to get it so right, so when you come home, your energy is so confused.
“You need to go, sit and chill. I remember doing a great show called Elevator two years, at the Fringe Festival. It was all a bit cocaine-y, a bit party-ish and a bit seedy.
“And because I was in a room all day in a dark theatre rehearsing and then performing – and you really have to go there – I remember feeling dark.”
