Lily Allen: Strictly Cocaine Now
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
This will end well:
LA: I don’t drink anymore.
DH: You’ve stopped for good?
LA: I’ve stopped for the foreseeable future.
DH: Was the drink getting out of control?
LA: No. I just decided that I didn’t want to give people ammunition to write things about me. I mean, I’ll just take cocaine now without any alcohol. [laughs]
DH: I’ve tried. It’s a nightmare. You become a jibbering wreck.
LA: God, I can’t imagine what that must be like.
DH: Yeah, it’s stupid. It’s the most horrible thing in the world. You’re just totally wired. And because everyone else around you is drinking and you’re not, it makes you really want to drink. But you don’t drink, so you just have more cocaine, which makes you more wired, and then everyone else sort of crashes out, and you say, “I hate myself.”
Old pals Damien Hirst and Lily Allen chat about the best-laid substance-abuse plans in the new issue of Interview.
