Pink – who has been selling out stadiums on her Summer Carnival tour – has shared that she nearly died when she was younger.
The 44-year-old artist, who has had to cancel some recent shows due to health concerns, revealed she almost passed away of an overdose.
The timing was unusual: it came just weeks before signing her first record deal.
‘Thanksgiving 1995, I was at a rave and I overdosed,’ the Get the Party Started singer told 60 Minutes’ Cecilia Vega.
‘I was on ecstasy, angel dust, crystal, all kinds of things, and then I was out, done, too much.’
Overdose: Pink revealed she almost died of an overdose when she was 16, just weeks before signing her first record deal. ‘I was on ecstasy, angel dust, crystal, all kinds of things, and then I was out, done, too much’ she told 60 Minutes (Pictured in Phoenix October 9)
‘You almost died,’ said the reporter.
‘Yeah,’ the singer confirmed as she sat comfortably at her kitchen table wearing a black T-shirt and black and white mohair sweater.
Pink’s trademark Mohawk was dyed platinum blonde and she wore minimal makeup with a soft peach lip.
The future Grammy winner, whose legal name is Alecia Moore, was 16 at the time she ‘got into drugs, I was selling drugs, and then I was kicked out the house, I dropped out of high school. I was off the rails,’ she said
Following the close call, Pink says she stopped using drugs immediately.
Weeks after her brush with death, the Family Portrait singer signed a record deal with LaFace Records as a member a girl group which Pink described as ‘token white girls on a Black label.’
The label even sent her to etiquette classes. ‘They wanted me to learn how to wear dresses and use the right fork.
‘I went once,’ she admitted, ‘but it didn’t work.’
Neither did the group. Pink released her first solo album Can’t Take Me Home in 2001. It went double platinum.
Off the rails: The future Grammy winner, whose legal name is Alecia Moore, was 16 at the time she ‘got into drugs, I was selling drugs, and then I was kicked out the house, I dropped out of high school. I was off the rails,’ she said (Pictured in Santa Monica, CA in September 2000)
Etiquette lessons: Pink said her first record deal required her to go to etiquette lessons. ‘They wanted me to learn how to wear dresses and use the right fork.’ ‘I went once,’ she admitted, ‘but it didn’t work,’ she said (Pictured in Berlin)
When questioned about a past statement about ‘not winning the popularity contest among her peers,’ Pink, who has been on the road with her Summer Carnival tour at the same time Beyoncé and Taylor Swift were on their Renaissance and Eras tours answered it this way.
‘We sold three million tickets in the last six months, but you don’t really hear about it unless you went.’
‘Image is everything in this business,’ she explained.
The 5’3″ former gymnast, who says she ‘never got a record deal because I was cute’ admitted she was ‘relieved’ not to have to rely on ‘conventional beauty’ for success.
‘I don’t have to keep that up as I age.’
Ticket Sales: When asked about not being as popular as her peers in the music industry, Pink, who is traveling on her Summer Carnival tour said, ‘We sold three million tickets in the last six months, but you don’t really hear about it unless you went’ (Pictured in Phoenix October 9)
Aging: Pink, who does not consider herself a ‘conventional beauty,’ is relieved not to have to rely on those standards for success. ‘I don’t have to keep that up as I age,’ she told 60 Minutes’ Ceclia Vega
Vegas: After she completes her current tour, Pink, whose shows feature high flying acrobatics, is considering settling down with her own Las Vegas residency. ‘I would like to have the best show that Vegas has ever seen, and I think that I can,’ she stated
‘I like going against societal norms. When they say “a woman has to slow down, become smaller, take up less space, calm down”…. no, absolutely not… why can’t we ride it ’til the wheels fall off?’
After she completes her current tour, Pink is considering settling down with her own Las Vegas residency.
‘I would like to have the best show that Vegas has ever seen, and I think that I can.’
The So What artist, whose show is filled with acrobatic feats and high wire moves said, ‘for a performer like me, who has a stage that doesn’t have to travel, oh my God, you can do so much.’
