P!nk opens up about drug overdose at age 16

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P!nk has shared the story behind the drug overdose she suffered at age 16 just weeks before signing her first record deal.In a recent appearance on 60 Minutes, the singer opened up about her troubled home life, sharing: “I was a punk.

I had a mouth. I had a chip on my shoulder.”“Basically, I grew up in a house where every day, my parents were screaming at each other, throwing things, hated each other.

And then I got into drugs, I was selling drugs – and then I was kicked out of the house, I dropped out of high school. I was off the rails.”The pivotal incident occurred in November 1995, Pink recalled. “Thanksgiving of 1995, I was at a rave, and I overdosed.

I was on, oh boy – ecstasy, angel dust, crystal, all kinds of things,” she shared. “Then I was out. Done. Too much.”Host Cecilia Vega asked the singer if she almost died from the overdose, to which Pink responded, “Yeah.”Shortly after the overdose, she was offered a performance slot at a hip-hop night in exchange for a deal with the DJ. “Come back tomorrow, I’ll give you a guest spotlight,” she says he told her, with the caveat: “But you can never touch drugs again.”She was offered a record deal with LaFace Records as part of the short-lived R&B girl group Choice soon after, before launching her solo career in 2000.P!nk recently postponed tour dates in Canada due to a respiratory infection, citing her doctor’s advice to take time to recover.