During a sitdown Interview with Harry Smith, NBCElton John admitted that he wished he’d never tried drugs. “I’m so lucky to have survived all that I’ve done,”He said. British artist opens up about his drug addiction and how it led to him losing control after only a few months. “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.'”
John lived a fast-paced lifestyle for more than ten years. Doing drugs became part of his daily life. However, it took losing his dear friend Ryan White to AIDS for the “Hold Me Closer”The singer realized he needed to get clean. “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 the story “Today.”
John was happy to beat his addiction. But, John is even more proud of having stayed clean for more than 30 years.