The former Corrie star opened up about his tumultuous relationship with his father, who he says was an alcoholic and squandered the star’s fortune many times over
Former Coronation Street star Adam Rickitt has revealed he lost the fortune he made from his early TV success, claiming his alcoholic father “stole” his money. The 47-year-old spoke about his strained relationship with his late dad during an appearance on Vanessa Feltz’s television show.
Adam, who found fame in the late 1990s playing Nick Tilsley on the long-running ITV soap, said much of the money he earned at the height of his career never stayed in his bank account.
He explained: “If you Google ‘Adam Rickitt net worth’, it comes up with a figure, it’s not that figure because my dad stole all my money. And he did it three times. So, even though I was 18 years old and did Corrie and did the pop music and money was coming in, it kept just going to him, and he kept losing it.”
The actor said his father had once been highly successful in finance but struggled with alcohol, which ultimately led to the family’s breakdown.
He continued, “My dad was a very successful merchant banker, he was pulling in millions of pounds a year himself. But, he was also a flaming alcoholic. I kept lending him money, he kept wasting it, but then he would make money.
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“And rather than paying me back, he’d go and spend it on his friends. He’d never spend it on his family or pay me back. So, we ended up falling out for 15 years and we only reconnected when he went from earning millions of pounds to living on a state pension and penniless, having his home repossessed because he had nothing to prove anymore, because he couldn’t prove anything anymore.”
Host Vanessa Feltz then asked if his father was alive, to which he confirmed he isn’t, before revealing: “It’s not like it’s a shock news to anyone anyway.”
He finished, “And I would say it healed. It was never repaired. And I think when you have a big rift, like the Brooklyn and David Beckham situation, I think they will reconnect. I don’t think it’ll ever be the same relationship they had before. Mine with my father certainly wasn’t.”
Vanessa then asked: “Did you want to reconnect with him?” Adam replied: “For a long time, no.” Vanessa quizzed him: “I would wonder why you did, because it sounds as if he played fast and loose with your money in an incredibly selfish and kind of toxic, narcissistic, unpleasant kind of a way. It wasn’t an accident.”
Host Vanessa added: “Did you have to have loads of therapy to find out that or did you just work that out yourself? Adam replied: “No, I just worked it out to myself. When you finally saw him as a human being and realised he wasn’t doing it because he hated me.
“He wasn’t doing it because he wanted to ruin my life. He was doing it because he was a petrified little boy. He was still the four-year-old boy.”
The revelations come as the star prepares for a return to music more than two decades after his brief pop career.
The heartthrob released his debut single I Breathe Again in 1999, which reached number five in the UK charts and featured a him strip naked while being examined by doctors inside a glass box. He later released the album Good Times, which reached number 41 in the charts before he was dropped by his label.
Now the actor has revealed he is back in the studio recording new material after signing a new record deal.
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