I’m gonna be honest and say that I never really knew that the guys in Busted were massively into drugs – they always seemed too squeaky clean for that – but it turns out that I was completely wrong as Matt Willis was a major wreckhead during his days in the band.
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40 year old Willis is coming clean about his struggles with addiction in a new BBC documentary entitled ‘Matt Willis: Fighting Addiction’. Here’s what he had to say about it all:
I had been sober since 2008 but relapsed several times, with the most recent five years ago after I was offered a line of cocaine at an after party following a sold out show on the Busted reunion tour.
I was like, ‘Cocaine wasn’t a problem for me, alcohol was my downfall,’ so I did it.
Within a month I was doing six grams, bang, bang, bang, bang, on my own every f**cking day and not coming home until 3am in the morning, pretending I was working on my album.
I wasn’t really writing I was making s**t music in the studio doing coke.
It was straight back to that shame cycle, the shame of relapse, the same of letting everyone down, the shame of using uncontrollably trying to stop and not being able to.
I had used cocaine as a way to keep sober before.
About 11pm, I’d get some and stay up till five – it allowed me to keep in the game, because I was always p***ed.
I loved it, that’s the thing – it wasn’t always dark and f**ked up. It was exciting, and people wanted me to come places and go to parties. I’m in this cool media world – and I was some kid from nowhere.
I was always amazed that I was at these things, and drugs and drinking was a part of that.
Sounds like the story of pretty much every celebrity that gets lost in the glitz and the glamour of celebrity life like that, but again it’s good that he’s coming out and speaking about these issues as hopefully it’ll help other people that are being faced by the same issues.
For more of the same, check out this new Honduran drug that’s more addictive than cocaine and selling like hot cakes. Watch out for that one.
