Marcus Brigstocke has defined why he determined to spend a ‘foolish’ sum of money shopping for again his personal motorhome.

The comic, 52, is finest identified for his stand-up work, in addition to showing in movies and TV exhibits together with Love Really, Have I Received Information for You and Reside on the Apollo.

Though he’s carved out a profitable profession, he’s now detailed being left considerably out of pocket after being determined to re-purchase one in every of his personal possessions.

This week he was a visitor on the brand new Spent! podcast, wherein he described how his motorhome – which he’d used for touring – was stolen in broad daylight from exterior his home in South London.

Believing the car would by no means be recovered, the comic managed to safe an insurance coverage payout.

Nevertheless, two years later he was contacted by Norfolk Police, who mentioned it had been recovered.

However to get it again, Brigstocke had to purchase it at public sale from the insurance coverage firm.

He then undertook what he labelled as a ‘wildly silly’ buy.

‘I purchased it again for far more than it was price,’ he instructed host Matt Edmondson.

‘My coronary heart was so connected to it. My youngsters had grown up in it.

‘To be honest, after I did get it again – there – there was a bit of field on the aspect of it… it was at all times troublesome to open. Solely I may do it.

‘I opened it up and my youngsters’ buckets and spades from the seashore have been nonetheless in there. The scumbag who’d stolen it hadn’t managed to open it.’

He continued: ‘I purchased it again for a foolish worth, it was a wildly silly factor to do. I didn’t want it. I wasn’t going to make use of it. My life had modified.

‘It wanted a lot work to be fastened and cleaned after this man had nicked it. I attempted a number of occasions to make it really feel mine once more. That failed completely.

‘I hung onto it for 4 or 5 extra years, however I simply bought it this yr. It was actually unhappy to see it go.’

Brigstocke additionally defined how his resolution induced some stress along with his huge, comic Rachel Parris, who was unimpressed he’d bought an merchandise stuffed with recollections from his first marriage.

‘My spouse Rachel, we had not been collectively very lengthy after I purchased it again – she wasn’t on the stage in our relationship the place she felt in a position to go: “What are you doing? Please don’t purchase the motorhome you used together with your first spouse”. I used to be obtuse and didn’t actually consider that.’

Brigstocke was beforehand married to film-maker Sophie Prideaux, who he shares two kids with, from 2001 till 2013.

The divorced following his affair with Spamalot co-star Hayley Tamaddon, which started in 2010.

He beforehand instructed the i Paper that he’d been battling a porn dependancy that led to him having an affair.

‘The issues I used to be into sexually have been altered by what I used to be seeing. I gained’t go into specifics, however it taught me there’s a lot elasticity in our sexuality,’ he mentioned.

He’s been in a relationship with Parris, 40, since 2018. They shared one son, who was born in 2021.

The comic has beforehand spoken about ‘being in restoration for varied addictions all my grownup life’.

‘I had an consuming dysfunction from the age of 10 adopted by drug and alcohol dependency,’ he instructed The Guardian.

Talking about his dependancy on The Hidden 20% podcast final yr, Brigstocke additionally defined: ‘I’d stayed sober from medicine, alcohol, and my compulsive consuming dysfunction, however I had develop into hooked on porn.

‘I actually had no concept that I used to be hooked on it. I form of thought I checked out a standard quantity of porn. Properly, the conventional quantity of porn in the present day shouldn’t be like a standard quantity of porn…earlier than the web.’

He went on to elucidate what number of porn addicts ‘have been addicted from concerning the age of 11’, including it ‘profoundly alters your mind chemistry’.

‘There are such a lot of individuals with completely different depths of dependancy to porn and to on-line social media. However porn is essentially the most poisonous,’ he mentioned.

The comic would watch porn ‘all night time, for all the night time’, earlier than searching for assist.

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