‘I popped pills from dodgy docs’ – SAYS LILY ALLEN
STAR MIXED PRESCRIPTION MEDS WITH COCAINE
POP star Lily Allen has revealed there are “rock docs” who provide stars with easy access to prescription pills.
The singer mixed legal medications with illegal drugs, alcohol and tobacco to stay slim.
Lily, 33, said: “I drank a lot of coffee and smoked a lot of cigarettes in order to suppress my appetite.
“I took cocaine for the same reason. If I was going out to dinner, I’d take coke earlier than everyone else to stop myself eating.
“I flirted with Adderall, which is really just a type of speed, as a way of getting or staying thin once I had access to prescription drugs through the ‘rock docs’ contacts I’d built up in my address book.
“Rock docs are those private doctors that the industry knows are happy to issue prescriptions for sleeping pills and painkillers without asking too many questions.”
Lily used to take tablets to render herself unconscious for days at a time so she would miss meals.
She said: “I’d take an industrial-strength pill to knock myself out, wake up 12 hours later and neck another, and so on, until three days had passed and I could emerge threequarters of a stone lighter.”
In her autobiography, My Thoughts Exactly, Lily claims that stars are prescribed stimulants and sedatives to help them cope with their hectic schedule of tours and promotional work. She said: “It’s a potent mix. It can drive you mad. It
did me.” Things got even worse when Lily began mixing her prescription medications with cocaine.
She said: “I started taking Valium and Xanax and Zopiclone.
“I would have people back to my flat, do a load of coke and then go up to my bedroom and double drop sleeping tablets. Then I’d go back downstairs and socialise until I felt woozy, then pass out.
“Usually, that was followed by getting up, getting on a plane and doing it all again in a different country.
“Taking drugs had become normal to me, and so had taking too many drugs, often in dangerous quantities.
“And I was always, always drinking.”