Last weekend, the singer Pink (Doylestown, Pennsylvania, 44 years old) sat down to talk about her work and life on the American broadcaster CBS’s 60 Minutes. And in it he recounted a painful episode in his life that almost cost him his life. According to him, he almost died of an overdose in 1995.
The incident occurred on Thanksgiving in late November of that year. She was only 16 years old. Just a few weeks later he would sign his first record deal. “I was a punk. She was rude. “I was under a lot of pressure,” he explains. Things weren’t going well at home. “Basically, I grew up in a home where my parents yelled at each other and threw things at each other every day. They hated each other. I started taking drugs. And to sell drugs.” All of this led to her dropping out of school and being kicked out of the house.
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“I got off track,” he admits. He was constantly partying and one night it all got out of hand. “I was at a rave and overdosed. Took ecstasy and angel dust [fenciclidina], glass, all sorts of things. Then it left me. A lot. A lot,” he admits. The interviewer asks Pink if she almost died at the party and she confirms this. For the singer, whose real name is Alecia Beth Moore, this was an absolute turning point in her life. At that moment, a DJ offered him the opportunity to sing, “Come back tomorrow, I’ll make room for you,” on a night they were playing hip-hop. “But you can never touch drugs again.” And he did he. A few weeks later, he began auditioning, which eventually led him to become part of Choice, an R&B group, and sign his first contract with LaFace Records. And from then on he gained worldwide fame and became one of the highest paid artists in the world.
Pink had spoken about the matter a decade ago. “I understand addictions. “I partied really hard between the ages of 12 and 15,” he told Entertainment Weekly in the summer of 2012, explaining that he did “all the club drugs” and “sold ecstasy, methamphetamine and ketamine.” “I overdosed in 1995 and then I never took drugs.” But he had never discussed the seriousness of the matter.
It’s important for the three-time Grammy winner to share these types of experiences because it helps her millions of fans understand her and feel a strong connection with her. “I think I see it very concretely. If I am an enigma to you, how will you connect with me? If I’m a person who desperately wants to connect, why should I be interested in maintaining the secret? I want you to know. “I want you to know me.” People know her, her career, her writing and her life, half of which she spends with former pilot Carey Hart, whom she married in 2006 and with whom she has two children, Willow ( 12) and Jameson (six). As he explained later in the interview, it was his way of carving out this career where his performances are very physical and his style and looks are unique. “I never got a record deal because I was pretty, I got it because I was passionate, I had a lot to say, I had a voice. I’m relieved that I don’t have to resort to conventional beauty and that it doesn’t have to be my thing and I don’t have to maintain it as I get older. I don’t have to be. “I can be so different.”
The singer made a famous statement about the importance of aging several years ago when she responded to a troll who called her “old” on Twitter. “There are people in the world who choose to age naturally. “I deserve every damn minute of my 38 years.” wrote. “I am one of those who think that getting older is a blessing. If your face has wrinkles around your eyes and mouth, it means you’ve been laughing a lot. I pray I look even older in ten years because that means I’m alive.”