During a sit-down interview with NBC’s Harry Smith, Elton John revealed he wished he had never tried drugs. “I’m so lucky to have survived all that I’ve done,” he said. The British artist opened up about his addiction to cocaine and how it spiraled out of control within months of trying it for the first time. “I liked it because I could talk,” John confessed. “I was very shy, so I thought, ‘This is the drug that has opened me up. I can converse, I can be verbose.'”
For more than 10 years, John indulged in the fast life, and doing drugs became a part of his daily routine. However, it took losing his dear friend Ryan White to AIDS for the “Hold Me Closer” singer to realize he needed to get clean once and for all. “My biggest regret is taking drugs, but, having said that, all of the pain and all the bad behavior, all the self-hatred I went through to get to where I got now, I got sober and I learned to live my life,” he told “Today.”
And, while John was overjoyed to have beat his addiction, he’s even prouder to have stayed sober for more than three decades.
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