KAT LAID BARE: The crazy binges bust ups and her violent rages
Kinky Kat the monster
By Polly Graham
THE distraught ex-fiancé of EastEnders star Jessie Wallace today lays bare the full truth about her shocking booze-fuelled life.Fireman Dave Morgan lifts the lid on the secrets of his two wild years with the hellraiser who plays brassy Kat Slater in the BBC soap - and reveals how her hard drinking has spiralled since the birth of their daughter Tallulah.
"If she's not out with her pals into the early hours she downs half a litre of strong Absolut vodka or bottles of red and white wine every night at home," Dave, 29, told the News of the World last night.
"She got me to go out and get the booze for her because she was paranoid about being pictured buying it. She'd been warned about her drinking by her bosses at EastEnders.
"Just a week after Tallulah's birth last November she was out partying with her mates and leaving me with the baby. She'd come home and behave like a monster."
Much has been written about Jessie's boozing - but this is the first time the man who loved the turbulent star has spoken out about what life with her was REALLY like.
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GashedOver the next four pages Dave - who stormed out of 33-year-old Jessie's London home just over two weeks ago - also lifts the lid on:
THEIR VIOLENT BUST-UPS: "Her eyes were popping out of her head like a wild animal. She threw a hell of a punch and her ring gashed my face and she blacked my eye."
THEIR KINKY SEX LIFE: "I would put on my fireman's outfit and other times Jess would burst into the bedroom wearing a PVC nurse's uniform then we'd go for it. It really flicked her switch."
Former cop Dave - who met Jessie when he escorted her in and out of court on a drink-driving charge in 2003 - is now trying to get his life back on track after the hell of life with Jessie. He told us: "I have been painted as someone who ponces and loves the celeb lifestyle Jessie has.
"The reality is that I feel I acted like a bloody saint. I put up with Jessie and her tantrums and boozing. I hardly drink so I ended up being like a glorified babysitter and chauffeur to her.
The only reason I stuck around was because I loved her and thought we could make it work for Tallulah's sake." But Jessie's continued wild drinking after the birth of their baby six months ago began to take its toll on their already tempestuous relationship.
"I thought she would calm down after she had the baby but she was soon back on it," said Dave. "She didn't really drink when she was pregnant apart from the odd Guinness. She found it hard and would sometimes say, ‘I could murder a drink', but she resisted."
But Dave realised nothing had changed when - just a week after leaving Portland Hospital following the birth - Jessie announced she was going to one of her friend's houses to party.
"I couldn't believe it but I knew better than to try to stop her. She rolled back in at 4am," said Dave.
"She felt like she could justify having a drink saying, ‘Well, I've been so good I deserve it'.
"It was all back to the old ways. She would announce she was going out for a girlie night and leave Tallulah with me. Then she'd stay out all night and wouldn't even ring to say where she was.
"She'd do that about two or three times a week - twice at the weekend. Jessie was lucky because she rarely seemed hung over and would always have learned her lines.
"It didn't cause her a problem at work." But it caused problems with the baby, according to Dave. "She stopped breast-feeding Tallulah because it didn't suit her. We decided it would be best because it meant I could feed her bottles while Jess was out," he said.
"But deep down I reckoned it was so she could booze and not end up feeding Tallulah neat vodka."
Vodka was her favourite drink. "She'd mix it with Perrier water in a tumbler and was always trying to get me to drink with her. She'd say I was boring because I'm not really into drinking," said Dave.
Drunk"Once she drank a bottle of blue label Absolut so quick she tried to hide it from me by filling it up with water and putting it in the freezer. But I knew what she'd done because the bottle was frozen solid and vodka doesn't freeze."
Jessie even managed to booze while working out to lose her baby fat. "She had an exercise machine and would run in the living room after she'd had Tallaluh to get back into shape," Dave said.
"But one time I came home to find her drunk on the machine with a glass of red wine in her hand. It speeded up unexpectedly and she fell off and landed on her backside. She'd drink about six out of seven days a week. She seemed like a bottomless pit." Dave recalled how he once found her in the back garden smoking a joint. "It was incredible - anyone could have seen her. I told her to get inside before someone saw her."
But drinking was her main bad habit and often at the root of their fierce bust-ups.
Ironically, it was Jessie's boozing that brought them together, when Dave was in court to see her banned for three years on the drink-driving charge two years ago.
After that she was warned by her EastEnders bosses to curb her boozing. If she went to a showbiz party she'd make sure she was never photographed holding a drink.
But at home she carried on as usual - and soon it was causing problems in their fledgling relationship.
Dave - who by this time had left the police to become a firefighter - told how she gave him the first of TWO black eyes in June 2004 after a huge bust-up when a builder pal of his talked to a newspaper about them. "She blamed me and went so berserk I had to lock myself in the spare room. I'd never been attacked like that before, not even as a policeman," said Dave.
"She was ranting and kicking the door down. I had to wait until she'd calmed down before coming out.
"The second time she blacked my eye was over something stupid. She's never a happy drunk who gets all lovey-dovey and giggly with it. She gets nasty when she's had a drink." Like last New Year's Eve when she went out to a pub with her mates rather than spend the night with her new family at their home in Wanstead, east London.
"I was annoyed we weren't spending it together but drove her to her friends," said Dave. "I was invited but I didn't want to bring Tallulah to a smoky pub, so I went home.
"At 6.30am I got a desperate call from one of Jessie's friends who said she'd gone berserk and had attacked another girl. I got Tallulah and got into the car and when I got there Jessie was staggering round in her bra and knickers, swearing.
"She'd ripped down the blinds of her friend's house and smashed a cabinet. The place was a mess. They'd come home from the pub and continued the party at her friend's. Jessie had stripped off to go to bed but had got up again and was running around the house half-naked."
Dave bundled her into their Range Rover - which had blacked-out windows - and drove home.
"When we got there, there was a photographer outside. Jessie had fallen asleep in the car and I knew she couldn't get out in the state she was in," said Dave. So he took Tallulah in and left Jessie to sleep it off in in the well between the front and back seats. She was there six hours.
The worst rows would end with her throwing him out of the house at any hour of the day or night. After one, Dave was pictured sleeping for four nights in his Mitsubishi Shogun in March as snow fell and temperatures plummeted.
ScreamingHe told us: "I ended up sleeping in my car because I felt so embarrassed about always turning up at friends' doorsteps. I couldn't afford a hotel. Jessie knew I was sleeping rough but didn't care. Eventually I went home and we briefly made it up so I got to have a roof over my head."
Their two-year relationship finally hit the rocks when Dave stormed out for good on April 21.
He said: "She started having a go at me as soon as I got in the door. I'd been looking after Tallulah as usual and she was doing the washing.
"She lost it because I'd put two pairs of thick trousers in the wash and she started screaming that they filled the load too much.
"I just snapped. I told her I'd had enough. I packed my bags the next morning and left.
"Jessie told me she wanted me out. I was really upset because I knew I was walking out on my daughter, too, and wouldn't get to see her every day from now on."
The next week Jessie got her lawyers to issue a terse statement to the press saying the romance was over for good.
"It was hard to believe," said Dave. "It had all been so great when it started. Our sex life was wild and fun - but then even that went wrong."