Pink nearly died from drug overdose weeks before record deal
nypost.com“60 Minutes” interview that aired Sunday, Alecia Moore Hart, aka Pink, 44, revealed that before she was a global superstar known for singing up-side down and performing aerial stunts to sold-out stadiums, she nearly died from a drug overdose, just weeks before signing a record deal.
The Grammy winning singer, who has two kids — son Jameson, 6, and daughter Willow, 12, with her motocross star husband Carey Hart, 48 — described the incident.She revealed that during Thanksgiving of 1995, she went to a rave where she took “ecstasy, angel dust, crystal.
All kinds of things…Then I was out. Done. Too much.”When she was asked whether she “almost died,” Pink replied, “Yeah.”She elaborated that she had dropped out of high school, and had a volatile relationship with her parents, with one fight with her mom even becoming physical, which is one of her “regrets” in life.
She described herself as, “Off the rails. I was a punk. I had a mouth. I had a chip on my shoulder. Basically I grew up in a house where every day my parents were screaming at each other, throwing things.
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