Natalie Cole has revealed how she battled her drug addiction. The Grammy Award winning singer's addiction to heroin and crack cocaine was so serious that she once crashed her car
"Sophisticated Lady” Natalie Cole has revealed the details of why she decided to come clean of her drug addiction.
The 8-time Grammy Award winning singer's addiction to heroin and crack cocaine was so serious that she once crashed her car while high and her young son, Robert, nearly drowned in the family pool when she was on a drug binge.
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In her 2000 autobiography, 'Angel on My Shoulder', she writes: "Smoke poured under the door to my hotel suite. It was so thick that it was getting hard to breathe." She was trapped in the room with her bodyguard, and, in the belief that they were doomed, he suggested they have sex. Cole had other ideas. "No thanks,' I said, 'If I'm going to go, I'm not going straight.' I fished my freebase kit out of my purse and started cooking cocaine.'"
When they were rescued, Cole realized it was time to address her addiction. She went into rehab in 1983.
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"At some point everything starts disintegrating around you, and you have to make a choice. That one commitment to do whatever it takes means exactly what it says. It's not easy," she added.
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