How to describe her husband, former England and premiership rugby player Danny Cipriani? His soon-to-be ex-wife Victoria – now in the throes of a complicated divorce – thinks hard about the conundrum.
A mass of paradoxes, she concludes: ‘Gentlemanly, chivalrous, considerate and kind… but also completely psychotic, delusional and in a high state of paranoia when he’d eaten a lot of magic mushrooms.’
Recalling those tumultuous times, Victoria describes innocuous-looking parcels being delivered by courier to Danny’s elegant house in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
‘Bar after bar of what seemed to be Cadbury‘s chocolate, even packaged with their distinctive Dairy Milk logo,’ she explains.
But they were not, of course, produced by the reputable confectioner at all. Actually, they contained the hallucinogenic drug psilocybin – commonly known as magic mushrooms – and were merely masquerading as ordinary chocolate bars.
‘They’d be left on the doorstep: £500 to £600 worth. And his…
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