Billy Idol determined “to not be a drug addict anymore” and is now “California sober”

Billy Idol has mirrored on his sobriety journey and determined “to not be a drug addict anymore” and is now “California sober”.

The 68-year-old iconic rocker shared that he’s now “California sober” – when an individual offers up on alcohol and onerous medication however continues to eat marijuana – in an interview with Individuals including that he doesn’t take into account himself to “be a drug addict anymore.”

Idol advised the publication that his choice to turn into sober got here after he almost misplaced a leg in bike accident again in 1990.

“I actually began to suppose I ought to attempt to go ahead and never be a drug addict anymore and stuff like that,” he mentioned of the accident. “It took a very long time, however regularly I did obtain some kind of self-discipline the place I’m probably not the identical type of man I used to be within the ’80s. I’m not the identical drug-addicted particular person.”

He continued: “I imply, AA would say, ‘You’re at all times a drug addict.’ And that could be true, however I don’t do something that a lot anymore. I acquired over it by some means. I used to be actually fortunate that I might recover from it as a result of lots of people can’t.”

The ‘Dancing With Myself’ singer revealed that he’s at some extent in life the place he can get pleasure from himself and never overdo it.

“I can have a glass of wine each from time to time,” he mentioned. “I don’t need to do nothing. However, on the identical time, I’m not the drug addict that I used to be within the peak ’70s, ’80s.”

He added: “A variety of my associates from the previous days are sober. [My guitarist] Steve Stevens is sober, and [guitarist/singer] Billy Morrison in my band is sober. There are folks round me who’re sober. That helps lots.

“I’m, I suppose, ‘California sober.’ I simply inform myself I can do what I need, however then I don’t do it. If I inform myself I can’t do something, I wish to do it. So, I inform myself, ‘You are able to do something you want.’ However I don’t truly do it.”

In different information, final yr, Foo Fighters teamed up with Idol to carry out a canopy of the Intercourse Pistols traditional ‘Fairly Vacant’.