Bono has recalled his eventful experience of drinking cocktails with Barack Obama at the White House, and it’s safe to say taking a kip in the Lincoln Bedroom wasn’t how he planned it to go.
The Irish singer-songwriter and U2 frontman opened up about his experience of falling asleep in the US president’s official residence in a new interview, while promoting his new memoir Surrender: 40 Songs.
Explaining that he ‘doesn’t call it drunk’ as he has an allergy to salicylates, which are found in red wine, pizza, tomato sauce and aspirin, among other things, the 62-year-old revealed that his head ‘will swell up like a balloon and pop or I fall asleep anywhere’.
Bono listed the ‘awkward spots’ where he’s fallen asleep, which include the lighting desk of Sonic Youth, the street, on car bonnets and at the White House, where they were ‘very, very good about it actually’.
Bono went to the White House with his wife of 30 years, Ali Hewson, and shared that the 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama, enjoys mixing cocktails but is ‘very measured’ and avoids having too many.