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Keith Richards snorts dad

04-04-2007 11:30

Keith Richards snorted his dead dad's ashes.

The Rolling Stones guitarist, who has battled heroin addiction, admits the cremated remains of dad Bert were the strangest thing he has ever sniffed.

Keith told NME magazine: "The strangest thing I've tried to snort? My father. I snorted my father.

"He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow. My dad wouldn't have cared, he didn't give a s**t.

"It went down pretty well and I'm still alive."

The pair didn't speak for around 20 years after Bert divorced Keith's mother. They were reunited shortly before Bert died aged 84 in 2002.

Keith also revealed his friends once thought he had "died" after a "bad" drugs binge.

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