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19-12-2024, 08:14 AM
John has been open about his addiction struggles in multiple interviews. He was introduced to cocaine by his former lover and manager John Reid in 1974, around the peak of his fame. He soon became addicted, to the point where he had a cocaine overdose in 1975.
John has been sober for over 30 years and helped stars such as American rapper Eminem and English singer Robbie Williams get clean.
He believes marijuana is a gateway to addiction. “I maintain that it’s addictive. It leads to other drugs. And when you’re stoned – and I’ve been stoned – you don’t think normally.”
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John said in a previous interview with CBS News in 2019 that his struggles with addiction nearly destroyed his soul. He said that when he tried cocaine for the first time, he actually threw up, but went and asked for more after that because he wanted to “join in” with his friends.
In the Time magazine interview, he added that he initially felt that cocaine helped ease his shyness, but eventually, the drug took over his life.
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English lyricist Bernie Taupin, John’s songwriting partner of more than five decades, said the years when John was heavily consuming drugs were not creatively fulfilling ones for either of them, and it was hard to watch his friend languish in addiction.
https://www.straitstimes.com/life/entert...and-canada
John has been sober for over 30 years and helped stars such as American rapper Eminem and English singer Robbie Williams get clean.
He believes marijuana is a gateway to addiction. “I maintain that it’s addictive. It leads to other drugs. And when you’re stoned – and I’ve been stoned – you don’t think normally.”
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John said in a previous interview with CBS News in 2019 that his struggles with addiction nearly destroyed his soul. He said that when he tried cocaine for the first time, he actually threw up, but went and asked for more after that because he wanted to “join in” with his friends.
In the Time magazine interview, he added that he initially felt that cocaine helped ease his shyness, but eventually, the drug took over his life.
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English lyricist Bernie Taupin, John’s songwriting partner of more than five decades, said the years when John was heavily consuming drugs were not creatively fulfilling ones for either of them, and it was hard to watch his friend languish in addiction.
https://www.straitstimes.com/life/entert...and-canada
