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'I drank 2 bottles of whiskey a day but scalped myself at night and saw my own skull'
alcoholism had already cost him several jobs, a number of relationships and even his marriage.But it was a bloodied, black-eyed selfie taken the morning after a sozzled and painful night before which finally made Gene Davies give up booze for good.The 49-year-old had taken the photograph shortly after scalping himself in his sleep, a drunken accident which could have very nearly killed him.It happened after the drummer - a cousin and former bandmate of Stereophonics' Kelly Jones - had begun lodging with a friend, having been asked to leave the family home due to his addiction."I was given the spare room, which had a bunk bed in it, and I must have sunk into a heavy sleep," he said."But when I awoke in the night needing a pee I quite forgot I was six feet up and dropped like a stone to the floor, taking out a chest of drawers with my head on the way down."The drawers were totalled but somehow I wasn't knocked out. So I staggered to the bathroom to see the mess I'd made of myself and whether or not I could just wrap it in a tea towel and go back to bed.