19/05/2007 00:00:00
UK: Pop star Michael backs cannabis use
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Troubled star George Michael has revealed he is addicted to prescription
drugs and believes the world would be a better place if more people
smoked cannabis.
He may quit Britain to escape media attention but says of the time he
was caught cruising on Hampstead Heath: "Believe me, I think that the
sex I have is worth being in the paper for!"
And he attributed his erratic behaviour to an attention-seeking and
"self-destructive" impulse brought on by the death of his mother a
decade ago.
The singer made a series of startling confessions in an interview with
Michael Parkinson, to be screened on ITV1.
Earlier this month he pleaded guilty to driving while unfit through
drugs after he was found slumped over the wheel of his car in a London
street.
Explaining the cause of the incident, ex-Wham! star Michael said: "It
involves prescribed drugs and it involves a dependency on them, and the
tendency to
chase one drug with another because of side effects," adding that he
could not say more because legal proceedings are still ongoing. He will
be sentenced at Brent Magistrates' Court in north-west London on May 30.
The arrest was one of a string of bizarre episodes in recent years which
have left fans worried for the 43-year-old star's wellbeing.
Asked by Parkinson if his "childish behaviour" was a bid to court
publicity, Michael admitted: "Well, I have to ask myself, don't I?"
He blamed his behaviour on the death of his beloved mother, Lesley, in
1997, saying: "I know I have a very self-destructive tendency since my
mother died, I have got to be honest. That has kind of made itself clear
in other ways.
"I think there has to be some element in that in why I was basically not
taking care of myself, really."
http://www.eastlancashireonline.co.uk/latest-entertainment-news?articleid=2890967
Source:
http://www.ukcia.org/news/shownewsarticle.php?articleid=12563
Author:
Burnley Express via UKCIA
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