RON WOOD EXPLAINS HOW HE SURVIVED DRUG ADDICTION
Rolling Stones guitarist Ron Wood is celebrating a decade of sobriety this year. The guitarist, whose penchant for booze and freebase cocaine was legendary back in the day, recently chatted to Britain's Daily Mirror, and revealed how he believes he was able to stay alive during his darkest years: “Luckily I had a valve that cut off, if it was going to be too much in my body, that said ‘no, don’t go over, don’t cross this line, otherwise you will not make it.' It was always ever present that it could be a stopping point or too much. If I do not control this then I would shoot off the edge of the precipice.”
Ron Wood — who's checked himself into rehab seven times over the years — told us that sobriety seems to always recharge his creative outlets and enrich his life: “A much happier place because after playing the last few tours focused, I feel much better within myself and satisfied. I couldn't have done a better job, and every show did get better, and my playing for some miraculous reason is getting better and better all the time — and so is my painting. And I'm still on this ambition thing. Y'know, I'm still very ambitious, and I think that's a big drive to life.”
