Slipknot’s Corey Taylor recalls ‘running through street naked’ at height of alcoholism as he reveals tame sober life

metro.co.uk:

Slipknot rocker Corey Taylor has revealed his sober life couldn’t be more different to his heyday, which included running through the street naked at the height of his drinking. The 48-year-old musician, who has released his new album CMFB Sides, quit drinking alcohol in 2006 after realising it was controlling his life in the absence of drugs which he kicked much sooner.These days, he leaves the wild rock n roll lifestyle firmly on the stage with booze out of his life – and now replaced with an arguably softer addiction.

Speaking to Metro.co.uk, Corey said: ‘This is what my life is now – besides talking s**t and trying to break everything when I’m on stage – my most rock n roll thing that I do is sneak downstairs and raid the candy jar. ‘I get into the sugar and chocolate and feel miserable the next day.

I trade booze for chocolate and still get hangovers. How the hell does that happen? ‘But when I eat a s**t tonne of chocolate, I don’t run down the street naked which is a very real circumstance that happened back when I was boozing it up.’ He added: ‘I drink about six pots of coffee a day so that’s my rock n roll lifestyle,’ before realising the most rock n roll thing is that he ‘doesn’t bulls**t people’. ‘That sounds better than dipping into my kids’ candy,’ he laughed.

Corey will be celebrating his 50th birthday in December 2023 and is proud to say he’s in the best shape he’s been in a long time. ‘It’s weird, I felt older when I was 40 than I did thinking about 50 because honestly, nothing’s changed,’ he said. ‘I’ve still got the Slipknot body, it’s broken and barely hanging on by a thread, but I’m actually health wise doing great.