Belinda Carlisle Only Beat Cocaine Addiction A Few Years Ago
The original 80’s girl power icon Belinda Carlisle has always appeared to live a charmed life..but in her new memoir she reveals that she has only recently gotten over a 30 year cocaine addiction. And she did it cold turkey.
I thought if it wasn’t going to work, I’d go to rehab. That was kind of the last thing. I made so many promises to so many people so many times through the years that I was going to stop and I couldn’t keep it and I knew it deep down inside. I hit a lot of bottoms. I don’t know why it took me so long. I guess I just wasn’t ready. It was weird when I quit. I was struck. I just knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that I would be dead if I continued. I just knew it came down to choosing life or death, and I chose life. I was at the end of a three-day binge. I remember thinking how humiliating it would be for my son to have his mom die in a hotel room of a cocaine overdose. That’s pretty low. I knew if I didn’t stop I’d be dead. You can’t be my age and doing the amount of cocaine I was doing.
There’s a great interview with Belinda at Popeater if you have a minute to waste.
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