Dougie Poynter has spoken out on how his addiction to Valium led to him "losing two years." The bass player, 32, recently told that he took "lethal doses" of Valium after McFly decided to take an indefinite hiatus in 2016.
He revealed that he struggled after he and his bandmates - Tom Fletcher, Harry Judd and Danny Jones - went their separate ways and he says he turned to the drug to help his worries about the band breaking up "disappear." Speaking openly about his battle with the drug and when quizzed by The Sun on if he struggles to remember the time he was taking Valium, he said: "Honestly, yeah.
I mean, you get flashbacks, but it’s a huge blur. It’s strange. “That’s something which is really hard to come to terms with, literally
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