KEYS TO MY LIFE
EPISODE 4 – CHRISTY DIGNAM
Starting out from the beautifully tranquil Zen-like home Christy shares with his wife Kathryn on the fringes of Dublin’s Phoenix Park, Brendan Courtney takes the 60 year old Aslan frontman on a journey through the turbulent halls of his past.
From the Council house in Finglas where Christy grew up to the terraced house he bought for just £14,000 as a struggling young newlywed – and sold on for £25,000 as a fast rising rock star – Christy unravels the thread that links childhood sexual abuse with his adult heroin addiction. Revisiting his spectacular fall from grace in 1988, the derailing of his American dream and his love for the woman who saved him from himself, Christy Dignam emerges as a grateful survivor who’s made peace with his past.