Music legend Tony Bennett has made a shocking confession – he was a cocaine junkie but courageously kicked the deadly habit on his own.
The 87-year-old “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” singer says he started smoking pot and using coke in the hippie ’60s, which also saw the heartbreaking murders of charismatic leaders President John F. Kennedy, his brother Bobby and Martin Luther King Jr.
“Our country took a tragic turn – everybody got wasted,” he recalls.
When he started drugging, “I wasn’t doing a huge amount,” he says, but “people get addicted and everything changes for the worse.”
His habit nearly killed him when he suffered an overdose in the bathtub in 1979.
He was rescued by second wife Sandra Grant, mom of two of his four children. She revived him in the nick of time, he says.