Famous artist Pink revealed she nearly died of an overdose just before she made it big in the music industry.
She admitted she turned to drugs at a young age after being raised in a volatile household, and detailed a scary moment in which her drug use nearly ended her life, according to a recent interview on “60 Minutes.”
“I feel like life is really traumatic … I think human beings are really resilient,” she said during the interview.
Pink candidly discussed her apparently troubled childhood and how it affected her.
“Basically I grew up in a house where every day, my parents were screaming at each other, throwing things. They hated each other,” she said.
Pink noted the challenges of her home life led her to drug use.
“And then I got into drugs … I was selling … I got kicked out of high school,” Pink said. “I was off the rails.”
Eventually, the star’s reliance on drugs became too much for her to handle, and she said she nearly died as a result.
“Thanksgiving of 1995, I was at a rave and I overdosed,” she said. “I was on — oh boy … ecstasy, angel dust, crystal, all kinds of things and then I was out. Done. Too much.”
“60 Minutes'” Cecilia Vega interjected with a statement, seeking more information from Pink.
“You almost died …” she said.
“Yeah,” Pink responded.
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“And I remember my friend was standing over me, smacking me across the face. And he was like, ‘Get up. You wanna sing, right?'” she continued. “And I was like, ‘Yeah.’ He’s like, ‘Get on the microphone.'”
“So I got up and I sang.”
“And the DJ there took me aside and said, ‘Come back tomorrow, I’ll give you a guest spotlight. But you can never touch drugs again.’ And I never did, haven’t since,” she told Vega. (RELATED: Pink Laces Into Rolling Stone Magazine, Calling It ‘Irrelevant’)
Weeks after her near-death overdose, Pink got her first record deal with Le Face records as the lead singer of an R&B girl-group. Her debut album, “Can’t Take Me Home” sold nearly 3 million copies worldwide, and she went on to become a long-lasting international celebrity.