This past weekend, singer Pink (Doylestown, Pennsylvania, 44 years old) sat down to talk about her work and life on the show 60 Minutes, from the American network CBS. And in it he narrated a painful episode in his life, so much so that it almost cost him his life. According to him, he nearly died from 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 she was going to sign her first record contract. “I was a punk. She was foul-mouthed. She was under a lot of pressure,” she explains. Things were not going well at her house. “I basically grew up in a home where every day my parents were yelling at each other, throwing things at each other. They hated each other. I started taking drugs. And to sell drugs.” All of this led her to drop out of school and get kicked out of home.
“I went off the rails,” he admits. She was constantly partying and, one night, everything went out of control. “I was at a rave and I overdosed. Had taken ecstasy, angel dust [fenciclidina], glass, all kinds of things. Then it left me. A lot. “Very much,” she acknowledges. The interviewer asks Pink if she almost died at the party, and she confirms it. For the singer, whose real name is Alecia Beth Moore, that was an absolute turning point in her life. Just then a DJ offered him an opportunity to sing on a night where they were playing hip hop: “Come back tomorrow, I’ll make room for you. But you can never touch drugs again.” And so she did it. A few weeks later she began auditioning which eventually led to her joining Choice, an R&B group, and signing her first contract with LaFace Records. And, from there, she became world famous and one of the highest paid artists in the world.
Pink had already spoken about the matter a decade ago. “I understand addictions. “I partied really hard between the ages of 12 and 15,” she said in Entertainment Weekly, in the summer of 2012, explaining that he took “all the club drugs” and “sold ecstasy, methamphetamines and ketamine.” “I overdosed in ’95, and then I never, ever took drugs.” But she had never talked about the seriousness of that matter.
For the three-time Grammy winner, sharing these types of experiences is important, because it helps her millions of fans understand her and feel a strong connection with her. “I think I see it in a very concrete way. If I’m a mystery to you, how are you going to end up connecting with me? If I am a person who is desperate to connect, why would I be interested in maintaining the mystery? Want you to know. “I want you to know me.” People know her, her career, her lyrics and her life, which she spends half of with former pilot Carey Hart, whom she married in 2006, and with whom she has two children, Willow, 12, and Jameson, of six. As she explained afterward in the interview, it has been her way of carving out that career for herself, where her performances are very physical and her style and appearance are unique. “I have never gotten 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 that. “I can be all this other.”
The singer already made a famous statement about the importance of aging a few 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’ve earned every fucking minute of my 38 years.” wrote. “I am one of those who think that it is a blessing to grow older. If your face has wrinkles around your eyes and mouth it means that you have laughed a lot. I pray that I look even older in ten years, because that will mean that I am alive.”
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