RELATED: Sinead O’Connor’s Prince horror story Jill Jones both worked with and dated Prince. “He started doing hallucinogens with Ingrid Chavez and all these different people and looking back now, for me, that’s a red flag,” says Jill Jones, a background vocalist for the star who also dated him on and off in the 1980s. So it was a shock to all around him when, around the time of the commercial failure of the 1988 album Lovesexy, Prince began taking ecstasy and hallucinogens recreationally, according to a former girlfriend.
“He had a borderline paranoia about having anybody around who was into drugs.” “If he saw two crew guys in a corner looking suspicious, he’d have me check on it,” said Leeds. Prince wouldn’t tolerate drug use by his band members, and Touré writes that friends of Prince claimed he even dumped singer Vanity as his girlfriend because she liked to get high. He would come up from the studio, take another slice, go back down. “I would make that for him on a regular basis and that would keep him going. He loved, loved, loved cake, mostly vanilla with chocolate frosting,” said Susannah Melvoin, Prince’s one-time fiancee and vocalist in several of his bands. “In his marathon sessions, he would eat cake. RELATED: Prince’s incredible final tour of AustraliaĮven in the cocaine-heavy ’80s, Prince would sometimes record in the studio for over 24 hours at a clip fuelled not by drugs, but by dessert. The trip did not go well.įor years, the music legend was vehemently anti-drugs. “We’d go outside, smoke a doobie and come back upstairs, and he goes, ‘Oohhhh, ooohhh, look at you! Your eyes are red! Look at you, look at you!’ And we’d be going like, ‘Oh, man, come on.’ He was square.”ĭuring his teens, Prince experimented with drugs just once, surprising good friend and future frontman for The Time, Morris Day with a request for psychedelic mushrooms. Prince was a square,” said Prince’s cousin Pepe Willie of the musician’s teen years. To those who knew and loved him, the manner of Prince’s death was especially ironic, as he was vehemently anti-drug from his teen years well into his time as music royalty. Prince died in 2016 from an accidental overdose of the synthetic opioid fentanyl. These incidents, as recalled by people close to the superstar, marked the beginning of a life of pain for Prince that most likely led to the addiction that killed him.
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