James Blunt once got scurvy because he only ate meat for two months and this is the most James Blunt thing we’ve ever heard.The You’re Beautiful singer was surrounded by vegetarian and vegan students while he was at university in Bristol.
So, as an act of defiance, he decided to live on chicken and mince for eight weeks aaaaand pretty soon he started to feel really, really unwell.
That’s when he was diagnosed with scurvy – a disease resulting from vitamin C deficiency, most commonly associated with sailors and pirates.
THEN (no, the story does not end there), James drank loads of orange juice to get those vitamin C levels back up and almost developed acid reflux.The 46-year-old recounted his ridiculous tale to Jessie Ware as part of her.
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