DJ Fat Tony has revealed that during his days depending on drugs such as cocaine and crack cocaine, his perception changed so much that he put himself through horrific pain that he couldn’t feel.
The musician, who could earn up to £100,000 per night during his heyday, said that the effects of the Class A drugs made him “psychotic”.
Fat Tony, 54, first stumbled across drugs when he was just 18 and managed to make himself believe that he wasn’t able to DJ unless he was high and often went four nights without sleeping due to his troubles.
Now, the record spinner has turned his life around and helps those who are struggling.
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“I was so psychotic that I thought my mouth was alive and there were creatures in my gums. It got to the stage where I’d pull my teeth out of my mouth with my bare fingers or pry them out with a screwdriver, my whole face was numb from the drugs, so it didn’t hurt,” he told new! magazine.
Tony, whose real name is Tony Marnach continued: ” Sometimes I’d stop playing mid-song and yell, ‘No K, no play!’ until someone sorted me out with some ketamine.
“I called drugs my “chemical scaffolding”, and it got to the stage where I didn’t know who I was without them.”
Tony’s relationship with drugs also damaged his relationship with an ex-boyfriend who once found Tony passed out on the floor of a nightclub.
During his addiction, Tony says that he no longer felt the effects of cocaine and turned his attentions to crack cocaine, noting that “the high is immense”.
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The hot-shot DJ found himself exchanging his television and VCR set for drugs as he had no cash on him.
He went on to add: “It wasn’t a smooth path, I replaced drugs with a sex addiction and was sleeping with up to eight blokes a day.
“But I treated that addiction too, although things didn’t work out with James.”
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In order to beat his drug addiction, Tony went cold turkey and spent six months in rehab to aid his recovery, which has seen him lead a healthier life.
Despite occasionally facing temptations since he managed to get clean, he said that life is “too good” to risk turning back to his previous days as drugs and alcohol are “no longer an option”.
He believes that if he ever had just one night of consuming alcohol and drugs, he would immediately “go straight back to being that guy with no teeth”.
Tony has now been clean for 13 years after turning his back on his previous life, during which he says that there was no day in 28 years that he wasn’t high.
If you or somebody you know has been affected by this story, contact Narcotics Anonymous for free support on 0300 999 1212 or visit their website, here.
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
