Nicky Campbell was so high on magic mushrooms he thought he was talking to John Lennon.
Nicky Campbell
The 'Long Lost Family' presenter has recalled a time where he was so high that he thought he was having a conversation with the late Beatles star, who passed away in 1980.
Writing in his book, 'One Of The Family – Why a Dog Called Maxwell Changed My Life', he shared: "I took up acting and magic mushrooms. I became fascinated by the extreme experience of hallucinogenic journeys into the centre of the deconstructed mind. A combination of ‘Red Star Acid’ and mushrooms, and time would be Daliesque, slip-sliding all over the place ... During one trip, in a back room of a tenement flat near the docks, I could see maybe a dozen people in the low-lit gloom, one of whom was almost certainly the brother of a friend of a mutual friend in the same class as someone we knew. As I soaked up the disjointed lines of Strawberry Fields Forever, the lava light shapes shifting and the curtains – nothing to get hung about – opening and closing, John Lennon, not long dead, spoke to me."
Meanwhile, Nicky - who was previously diagnosed with clinical depression and bipolar - recently opened up about his struggle with depression, which left him crying in the street.
Speaking about his wife, Nicky said: "She’s my saviour, she’d seen it coming and had realised it had come to a head ... she put up with me chasing people over the common and photographing them for dropping litter. I used to go out with a phone to photograph people, like I was going hunting. I just thought it was a kind of desecration and selfishness, people making the world a worse place for others."
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