James Blunt pours vodka on to the coals of his sauna to “imbibe” boozy steam.
The singer, 49, makes the claim in his memoir Loosely Based On A Made-Up Story, out on Thursday. Other tales include him spending thousands on liquid acid for his fig trees to grow “hallucinogenic fruit”.
The 49-year-old, whose 2005 hit You’re Beautiful topped the charts in 10 countries, makes the claim in his new memoir, Loosely Based On A Made-Up Story. Discussing the book, out on October 26, the dad-of-two says it was “inspired by true events”.
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In the book, which he calls his “truth”, he tells how he’s spent thousands on a “mind-expanding” drug that was popular in the 60s and 70s to “water his fig trees” in an attempt to “grow hallucinogenic fruit”.
The singer, who has a fortune of around £15 million, also describes his experience in the Army, where her served in Kosovo. He said he and his troop came under rocket fire and were told it would take 45 minutes for “air support” to arrive.
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Rather than wait, he called hid dad, Colonel Charles Blount, who was head of the Army Air Corps. He “called Daddy” and that “two Apache helicopter gunships arrived in less than five minutes,” he told The Times magazine.
Asked if the incident summed up “privilege”, he said his comrades encouraged him to “make the call”. He said: “My soldiers at the time would’ve called it the definition of ‘useful’…they weren’t bothered about me overexerting my privilege, they were saying, ‘Yup – f***ing call him!'”
Other incidents relayed in the book include using the mouthpiece of his trumpet from his days in the Household Cavalry to puff out cocaine to revellers.
Asked about why some folk didn’t like him, he said: “To be honest, when I look back I want to punch me in the face. I came out of boarding school and the Army and I was very naive and I got a bit of a kicking. Did I deserve it? Yes, probably. Has it kept my feet on the ground? Definitely. And like boarding school, I’ve sort of come to enjoy it.”
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