Noel Gallagher says he kicked cocaine after suffering “a few really f**king brutal panic attacks.”
Appearing on Funny How?, the former Oasis musician said he feared he would die from using cocaine “every night in the 90s.”
Gallagher spoke about being rushed to a Detroit hospital once. “You know, imagine having the psychosis and going to a hospital and having to go through a metal detector and someone asking you what's wrong with you? And they don't understand the words you're saying because of your accent,” he recalled, “and you’re like ‘I think I am on my way out’ and they're just like, 'Okay, I'm gonna go get someone else. Hang on a minute.’”
Joking that he is “not handsome enough” to be a “good dead rock star,” Gallagher said he feared he was going to die.
“If you've been up three nights doing f**king loads of gear, you're not f**king talking yourself down off any ledge there mate, you think you're going to die,” he explained. “Right. And rock stars die of that s**t.
“So it's like, this is it. This is... I'm on the f**king way out… A couple of times I thought, f**k hell, am I gonna have a heart attack.”
Gallagher said he quit cocaine during a month-long escape to Thailand in 1998 with his then-wife.
Asked if he misses coke, the 52-year-old replied: “No, I do not.”
Gallagher explained: ”It is a s**t drug. It's not creative, it's not very sociable. You end up locked in a bathroom with some f**king idiot who you don't like, particularly, and... saying that, I mean, I did a f**king load of it.”