HIV-negative Elton John ‘luckiest’
Entertainment News Thursday, July 19th, 2012
Sir Elton John
Speaking about his past, Sir Elton John has admitted that he was lucky that he wasn’t diagnosed as HIV-postive.
The singer, speaking to the Today show for a forthcoming broadcast said, “You know what? When you take a drug and you take a drink and you mix those two together, you think you’re invincible. I came out of this HIV-negative. I was the luckiest man in the world.”
John also spoke candidly about his past drug use saying, “I wasted such a big part of my life, when this epidemic was beginning to happen in the early 1980s. And I was a drug addict and self-absorbed. You know, I was having people die right, left and center around me, friends. And yet, I didn’t stop the life that I had, which is the terrible thing about addiction. It’s that bad of a disease.”
He added, “I was consumed by cocaine, booze and who knows what else. I apparently never got the memo that the Me generation had ended.”
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on Jul 19, 2012. Filed under Entertainment News.
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