Nelson Biography Reveals Star Smoked Pot As A Child.

14-02-2008 16:01

Nelson Biography Reveals Star Smoked Pot As A Child....

Country legend Willie Nelson began smoking marijuana at just 10 years old, according to an explosive new biography.Joe Nick Patoski's Willie Nelson: An Epic Life reveals all about the 74-year-old father-of-seven's hellraising life, including details of his infamous drug use and four marriages.Patoski claims that Nelson first smoked pot as a 10-year-old, that he battled other drug addictions as well as alcoholism.

A publishing source tells U.S. tabloid, "His constant use of various substances and booze made for chaos during his love affairs and... marriages".But, according to biographer Patoski, one lover, a Cherokee girl, attempted to tame Willie's cheating ways with a broom.The source explains, "She'd beat him with a broom".The book also reveals Nelson was threatened with a gun by his second wife Shirley Collie when she discovered him cheating with his future spouse Connie Koepke.