‘Sold my body for cocaine’

Actress Josephine Gillan, who plays prostitute Marei in the popular fantasy drama series Game of Thrones, says she was earlier addicted to cocaine and for buying it used to sell her body “three or four times a week”. Gillan says her life of drugs, prostitution and porn was “saved” by the show.

“Game Of Thrones saved my life. I couldn’t have gone on for much longer. I was addicted to cocaine and to keep the supply I needed, I had to sell my body three or four times a week,” Gillan said.

“I was earning thousands of pounds for sleeping with wealthy punters. They’d pay a fortune knowing they were having sex with a pornstar. I’d get as much as 4,000 pounds for an all-night session. I should have been set up for life, but all the money was being blown on drugs. I was a train crash,” she added. —IANS

It was right to kill Ramsay, says Iwan 

Ramsay Bolton met his demise in Game of Thrones and actor Iwan Rheon is not mourning the death of his character. He feels Ramsay deserved exactly what he got and says it was the right thing to do. Ramsay made his way through three seasons of the hit TV show by terrorising and murdering other characters. In a dramatic finale to “Battle of the Bastards”, Jon Snow (played by Kit Harington) was ultimately victorious (after getting help from sister Sansa (played by Sophie Turner) — IANS