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   Former 'Buffy' star on road to recovery after a troubled decade   
      
   There’s probably a thing or two that not even the biggest “Buffy the   
   Vampire   
   Slayer” fan might not know about Nicholas Brendon.   
      
   For example, Brendon, who played Xander Harris for seven seasons of the cult   
   classic horror/drama television series, has been busy sharpening his karaoke   
   skills.   
      
   “My go-to right now is ‘Sweet Transvestite’ from ‘Rocky Horror Picture   
   Show,’”   
   the actor and writer said. “On these drives to events, I’ve been listening   
   to a lot of musicals. I love them. I didn’t have that coming up.”   
      
   The 47-year-old, who appears this weekend at Charleston Shocka-Con at the   
   Beni Kedem Center, slid into acting sideways.   
      
   When he began college, he was a baseball player and then took theater   
   classes to work on a stutter.   
      
   His acting career didn’t take off immediately. He wound up with small parts   
   in B-movies like “Children of the Corn III” and television shows like   
   “Married with Children,” before landing his role on “Buffy.”   
      
   Brendon appeared in 143 out of 144 episodes, though he laughed about it.   
      
   “What’s important is that I was paid for all 144.”   
      
   The only actor who was in more episodes of the show was Sarah Michelle   
   Gellar, who played “Buffy,” though Brendon thought she might have missed   
   one   
   because she was hosting “Saturday Night Live.”   
      
   Brendon’s life has taken a series of bad turns since he and the rest of the   
   “Scooby Gang” on the show disbanded in 2003. He’s struggled with   
   alcoholism   
   and has been arrested several times for trashing motel rooms and assault,   
   which he said was connected to his ongoing battles with depression and   
   anxiety.   
      
   He’s still working through what he called a lifelong problem.   
      
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   David   
      
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