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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/elton-john-drugs-nearly-killed-me.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Sir Elton John was 'very close' to being killed by drugs, he says in a television interview" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-elton-john-drugs-nearly-killed-me.jpg" alt="Sir Elton John was 'very close' to being killed by drugs, he says in a television interview"/></a></p>
<p>Sir Elton John was &#8220;very close&#8221; to being killed by drugs, he says in a television interview.</p>
<p>When he looks back, he shudders at his behaviour, he says.</p>
<p>Interviewer Piers Morgan asks him: &#8220;How close did drugs come to killing you, do you think?&#8221;</p>
<p>The pop star says: &#8220;Very close. I mean, I would have an epileptic seizure and turn blue, and people would find me on the floor and put me to bed, and then 40 minutes later I&#8217;d be snorting another line.</p>
<p>&#8220;This is how bleak it was, I&#8217;d stay up, I&#8217;d smoke joints, I&#8217;d drink a bottle of Johnnie Walker and then I&#8217;d stay up for three days and then I&#8217;d go to sleep for a day and a half, get up, and because I was so hungry, because I hadn&#8217;t eaten anything, I&#8217;d binge and have like three bacon sandwiches, a pot of ice cream and then I&#8217;d throw it up, because I became bulimic and then go and do the whole thing all over again. That is how tragic my life was.</p>
<p>&#8220;I never considered myself a drug addict, I thought drug addicts were people who stuck needles in their arms. And I was the biggest junkie there was.&#8221;</p>
<p>The star renews his attack on the X Factor. Asked by Morgan why he had described the show as brain crippling and boring, he says: &#8220;I can&#8217;t watch those kind of shows. I find it very disturbing for me from the artists&#8217; point of view.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m totally on the artists&#8217; side, anybody who appears on the show, whether they&#8217;ve got much talent or not, if they win it, I wonder what&#8217;s going to become of them, are they just fodder for two years until the next Leona Lewis comes along, or the next Alexandra Burke. Why aren&#8217;t they going on tour? What&#8217;s happening? They can&#8217;t survive, I know, by just making records.&#8221;</p>
<p>Asked what is the most he has spent in a single spree, he says: &#8220;Well, I bought a photograph for a million dollars, and that was a photograph. It was a Man Ray and I&#8217;ve been collecting photography now since 1991 and David (Furnish) and I have properly the biggest private collection of photography and I&#8217;m very serious about it. I don&#8217;t talk about it much.&#8221;</p>
<p>Piers Meets Elton: A Life Stories Special, is on ITV1 at 9.30pm on Sunday.</p>
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