Palmer credits her husband, Richard Merkell, for her current family life. “He’s given me what I’ve always wanted - a real family.”
Before the two got together, Palmer had a serious issue with drugs and alcohol. She first went on stage at six and started drinking when she was eight.
By the time she was 13-year-old, she was already snorting cocaine. The actress got candid about her substance abuse in her autobiography, All Of Me.
“By my 20s I was binging my life away on cocaine, ecstasy, and enough vodka and Laurent Perrier Champagne to quench a small village’s thirst for several hours,” she wrote.
“I would be out of my head for two or three days in a row - whole chunks of time were lost. I took so many drugs I’m amazed I survived.”
Patsy Palmer with husband and children (Source: Instagram)
She married Merkell in 2000, and the two had been friends for 14 years before they started going out. It was this marriage that helped her enter rehab in 2004 and get sober.
