Dancing On Ice star Bez has reveals he was nearly shot dead in a row over drugs

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DANCING On Ice star Bez has revealed how he was nearly shot dead in a row over drugs. The Happy Mondays rocker had a gun held to his throat by South American dealers who he fell out with during a trip to New York.

Bez - the unlikely star of this year’s series - only escaped when a pal disturbed the gangster allowing the musician and his pals to leg it.

He opened up on the terrifying incident in his book Freaky Dancing: Me and The Monday’s. Talking about the fall-out which happened after he and pals tried to score some drugs in a dark alleyway in the American city back in the 1980s he writes: “A Puerto Rican gang surrounded us and this kid pulled out a gun and shoved it in my throat.  “It dawned on me that I might have a problem on my hands.

But God must have been looking down on me because a guy then appeared at the end of the alleyway and quickly diffused the situation and dragged me away while I was arguing the toss.  “Maybe I was a bit too excited and overly animated at the time but I can be like that when I am on drugs.”  Details of Bez’s lucky escape comes weeks after Sun Online revealed he once rioted in prison over trifle.  @font-face{font-family:'The Sun';src:url('/assets/fonts/the-sun/TheSun-Regular.woff2') format('woff2'),url('/assets/fonts/the-sun/TheSun-Regular.woff') format('woff'),url('/assets/fonts/the-sun/TheSun-Regular.ttf') format('truetype'),url('/assets/fonts/the-sun/TheSun-Regular.svg#') format('svg');font-style:normal;font-weight:400;font-display:swap;}@font-face{font-family:'The Sun';src:url('/assets/fonts/the-sun/TheSun-Medium.woff2') format('woff2'),url('/assets/fonts/the-sun/TheSun-Medium.woff') format('woff'),url('/assets/fonts/the-sun/TheSun-Medium.ttf').