READ MORE: Cancer warning: Popular UK drink can cause 'several types' of cancer - 'strong agreement' [CANCER]Link © GETTY James Hetfield "There was drink and drug and all kinds of stuff just thrown at you all the time and it starts off as a fun little thing, and then it turns into an escape, and then all of a sudden you don't remember why you're out there doing stuff," he said.
In the UK and US, addiction affects thousands of people every year. UK Government statistics show over 250,000 adults were in contact with drug and alcohol addiction services between April 2020 and March 2020.
Hetfield's decision to start tackling his addiction was motivated by fear, he explained. He said: "Losing my family, that was the thing that scared me so much, that was the bottom I hit, that my family is going to go away because of my behaviours that I brought home from the road. "I got kicked out of my house by my wife, I was living on my own somewhere, I did not want that. "In the same conversation, he went on to talk about his childhood, which was riddled with a lack of connection with family.
He added: "Maybe as part of my upbringing, my family kind of disintegrated when I was a kid. Father left, mother passed away, had to live with my brother, and then kind of just, where did my stuff go?
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