Simply Red frontman Mick Hucknall reveals drug-fuelled past and how heroin made him ‘woozy’

SIMPLY Red frontman Mick Hucknall has told how heroin made him sick and cocaine turned him “wooden”.

Mick, 59, said he hated taking drugs and prefers alcohol — limiting himself to half a bottle of wine a day.

The singer said he had “tried everything” and once lived with a heroin addict. Mick recalled: “Smoked it. I felt woozy and threw up.”

He said he has also been around cocaine “all my working life”, adding it was “pointless” and “makes you feel like wood”.

The star denied a previous claim he slept with 3,000 women in just three years in the 1980s — and said a report mixed up the figures.

Asked about the real number, he said: “I have no idea. I don’t put chips on the bedposts. I do not treat or talk about women like that.”

He told The Sunday Times magazine he was now a “moderate drinker”, adding: “I’ll have half a bottle a night, max.

“I’m also dry and vegetarian two days a week.”

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