Rock musician Billy Idol confessed to kicking his heroin addiction by doing something else instead — smoking crack.
Idol admitted that he had many close-calls in his lifetime, including some frightening close-calls while using drugs, during a March 2 appearance on "Club Random with Bill Maher." He confessed that he shot up a few times before turning to his preferred method ofusing the drug— cutting lines and snorting it. The famous rocker described how difficult to get off the drug before revealing his unconventional solution to heroin addiction.
"Once you're trying to get off heroin, what do you go to? You go to something else. I started smoking crack to get off heroin," Idol said.
"Did you really?" Maher asked.
Idol doubled-down on his tactics. "It worked. It worked," he said with a laugh.
The famous 80s rocker described some frightening moments during the days of his heroin-use, and admitted to "nodding out" while using the drug.
In one instance, he claimed he was using heroin with a group of people that all passed out while he and another fellow kept going.
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"Eventually we did pass out and then when other people in the room came to, I was going blue," Idol admitted.
TOPSHOT – British singer Billy Idol performs on the main stage of the Rock in Rio music festival at the Olympic Park in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on September 9, 2022. (Photo by MAURO PIMENTEL / AFP) (Photo by MAURO PIMENTEL/AFP via Getty Images)
He talked about his near-death experience matter-of-factly, and explained to Maher how heroin affects the body.
"They put me in a bath," he said, before explaining, "Well, if you're dying, you're going to start turning blue."(RELATED: Nicole Kidman Claims She Can Perform An Autopsy After Playing A Role As Medical Examiner)
Portrait of Billy Idol at a hotel in Tokyo, Japan, 1984. (Photo by Koh Hasebe/Shinko Music/Getty Images)
"I suppose it just overwhelms your system, and I suppose it stops you breathing or something," he told Maher.
The 70-year-old rockstar opened up about his wild lifestyle in the new documentary "Billy Idol Should Be Dead," released Feb. 26.