 He said he was high on cocaine and having a psychotic episode at the time of the attack, and sought treatment afterwards. He has been drug-free since and doesn't even touch cigarettes. He said: "I can't imagine I will ever put myself in a situation like that again. I've taken things to the ultimate conclusion and there really is no happy place to go from there. "So I invest a lot of work into my sobriety, into staying clean. I'm not prepared to give that up for anything or anyone. "I look back on how I was and think, 'Who the hell were you? How the hell did you even cross the road when you were like that?' Boy George pictured outside his London home in 1986 ( Getty) Boy George battle drug addiction for several decades ( WENN) "And I'm not even talking about when I was off my head, I'm talking about when I was normal. I was pretty much bonkers. I don't think I'm that person now." In 2017, broke down on Piers Morgan's Life Stori){kind=link}
I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here star Boy George was in the depths of despair when Princess Diana reached out to him
For decades, I’m A Celebrity star Boy George fought to break free of a dark drug addiction that claimed at least three of his friends.
In the ’80s, he struggled with a heroin addiction so serious that his desperate brother David O’Dowd made a public appeal on TV in the hope of getting him to stop.
It was around that time that keyboardist Michael Rudetsky was found dead from a heroin overdose at Boy George’s home. His friend Mark Vaultier then overdosed on methadone and valium at a party and another pal, Mark Golding, died of an overdose.
But it wasn’t until January 2009 that a change finally came for the Culture Club star – real name George O’Dowd, who re-evaluated his life after serving four months of a 15-month jail sentence for the assault and false imprisonment of a male escort.