Boy George's drug confession

04-08-2008 06:00

Boy George only quit drugs at the end of last year.The former Culture Club frontman - who has revealed he used to be a heroin addict - says he spent much of the last five years taking illegal substances every day.He confessed: "I've been strung out on drugs for the last five years. But this time I'm clean for good. I don't want to die. "I've spent five years in this chemical cloud. Getting clean at the end of 2007 was a very big thing. I was using half my brain, half my personality on drugs."One day I took a little and then I was on four grams a day. Up until six months ago, I had a really bad problem."The singer has now vowed to stay clean for good.He added to Q magazine: "A friend took me to a Narcotics Anonymous meeting and I was like an old f***ing man. I could barely walk I'd been using so much f***ing drugs.