Pink is talking openly about the 1995 cocaine overdose that almost claimed her life.
The 44-year-old singer described the childhood incidents that led to her overdose during an interview with Cecilia Vega for 60 Minutes, which was conducted only weeks before she signed her first record deal.
The punk I was. A mouth was mine. I held a grudge against somebody,” she admitted. “Basically, I grew up in a home where my parents yelled and threw things at one another every day. They despised one another.
“I became a drug user. I was selling narcotics,” she added, adding that as a result, she was expelled from her home and had to leave high school.
Pink acknowledged that she was “off the rails” before she overdosed in 1995 during a dance on Thanksgiving.
“I was at a rave and I overdosed,” she claimed. “I was using ecstasy, crystal, angel dust, and other substances. I left after that. Done. There is too much.
The Grammy winner said “Yeah” when Vega enquired as to if she had “almost died.”
Pink cited her near-death experience as a pivotal moment in her life. Her first record deal with her R&B female group Choice came shortly after she stopped taking “hard drugs” and within a few weeks.
The singer of “Just Give Me a Reason” has spoken out frequently about her previous drug addiction over the years.
She admitted to Shape Magazine in 2012 that although she didn’t go to the hospital after her overdose, it served as the wake-up call she needed to change her life.
She recalled at the time, “I remember rising up off the floor in the morning – and it was the last time I ever touched a drug again.
“I was also given the opportunity to perform on hip-hop night that day by a DJ. He merely said I couldn’t use drugs, so I didn’t,” Pink continued. That’s the thing about me; once I make a decision, I stick to it.