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Elton John has revealed he "wasted" a big part of his life using drugs in an interview regarding the musician's upcoming memoir, Love Is the Cure: On Life, Loss and the End of AIDS.
"I was a drug addict and self-absorbed," said
John, who explained this was in the early Eighties, around the same time the
AIDS epidemic was starting. "You know, I was having people die right, left
and centre around me, friends. And yet I didn't stop the life that I had, which
is the terrible thing about addiction. It's that – you know, it's that bad of a
disease."
During the interview, John also talked about how his
lifestyle at the time made him feel unafraid of the growing AIDS epidemic:
"When you take a drug and you take a drink and you mix those two together,
you think you're invincible," the musician said. "I came out of this
HIV-negative. I was the luckiest man in the world."
In the book, John writes, "I was consumed by cocaine,
booze, and who knows what else. I apparently never got the memo that the Me
generation had ended."
Though John admitted he felt some guilt about that period in
his life, he added, "I'm making up for it. There is so much more to be
done."
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