ENGLAND footie star Saido Berahino is seen apparently getting high on “hippy crack” days after Raheem Sterling was exposed doing the same.
West Brom striker Berahino, 21, inhales from a purple balloon seemingly filled with nitrous oxide in an internet clip the Baggies ace posted himself.
Amazingly it comes a year after he was filmed performing a similar stunt in a parked car, after which the shamefaced player vowed: “I won’t be doing it again.”
The new footage shows him wide-eyed as he inhales three times from the balloon — while a woman holding the camera is heard laughing hysterically and coughing.
The England under-21 sensation — twice called up to the senior squad by Roy Hodgson — lies wrapped in a duvet on a bed.
Last night a source said of the nine-second clip: “He sent it out himself on Snapchat about three months ago, which is a pretty silly thing to do.
“It was then circulated so quite a lot of people have now seen it.
“I was shocked — considering he is a top Premier League and international footballer. He is meant to be looking after himself and staying fit and healthy.
“It looks like it was shot in his house or the girl’s house. Lord knows why they were doing it, let alone sending the footage out.”
The clip emerged just five days after The Sun pictured Liverpool and England winger Sterling, 20, similarly sucking from a balloon — in a growing craze that anti-drug campaigners warn can kill.
Balloons of nitrous oxide, also known as laughing gas or hippy crack, can be legally bought for as little as £2.
It can cause feelings of euphoria, light-headedness and hallucinations.
But it comes at the risk of heart attacks and brain damage. The drug has been linked to the deaths of 17 young people since 2006.
Berahino, who yesterday helped his side beat Crystal Palace 2-0, said after last March’s escapade: “This was very poor judgment on my part and not the right example to be setting.
“At the time, I wasn’t fully aware of the serious health risks involved. But now I know, I won’t be doing it again.”
The new clip is believed to have been shot just months after Hodgson named him in his England side for the first time in November.
The antics of the £15,000-a-week hotshot — touted as a summer signing for Manchester United, Liverpool or Chelsea — were branded “shocking” by substance abuse charity Re-Solv.
Its director Stephen Ream said: “It’s unbelievable to hear he’s doing this and then posting it himself.
“He’s clearly not learned from the last time. Footballers have to accept they are role models and young people do look up to them.”
Berahino was born in Burundi, where his dad was killed in the south east African state’s civil war.
The player — who as a child used a ball made of plastic bags tied with laces — fled to Britain alone aged ten to join his mum, brother and sisters in Birmingham.
A WBA spokesman said of the new clip: “We are aware of this situation but do not wish to comment.”