X Factor star Honey G admits to taking cocaine, ecstasy, magic mushrooms and weed after sexual assault at college led to drug addiction
Rapper reveals she smoked cannabis for an entire summer and admits taking ecstasy, cocaine and a magic mushroom
DRUG addict Honey G has admitted taking ecstasy, cocaine and a magic mushroom — and revealed she spent an entire summer smoking marijuana.
The X Factor rapper, a shock favourite to win the ITV show, says she strayed into addiction amid a host of troubling personal issues.
And she confessed in an exclusive Sun interview: “I did class A drugs.
“I’m hardcore and I’m totally real.”
Honey, real name Anna Georgette Gilford, said she began smoking marijuana as a 14-year-old schoolgirl and continued throughout her time at Salford university.
But she says her addiction developed after she was kidnapped and sexually assaulted while at the college in an episode she admits “ruined my confidence”.
She said: “I have struggled with addiction. I have nothing to hide. I did do some class A drugs like cocaine and I did pills.
“I did a magic mushroom that I will never do again — that was probably one of the worst experiences.
“The thing about me is there is actually a story behind me and my life. It’s not like, ‘Hi I’ve just turned up on X Factor’.
“I’ve been a musician my entire life and I’ve been through real experiences. I’m totally real, hardcore and I have experienced things that are real.”
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The single rapper, from North West London, went on: “I’ve always struggled with a weed addiction.
“I don’t do it much now, only socially from time to time. I don’t like to bring it in my apartment as I don’t want to get hooked.
“There was a summer where I was going through a bit of a hard time and I ended up hanging out with people and, basically, we spent the whole time smoking weed.
“I ended up writing a song about the fact I spent that whole summer smoking pot. It isn’t a lie — basically it is actually true.”
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But Honey insisted: “I do not do Class A drugs any more. A pill, a bit of coke, I would not touch that nowadays. I was still doing a bit of coke but I don’t touch it now.”
X Factor chiefs last night spoke to Honey G about her illegal drug use — which she assured them had not taken place while she was in the house provided by show chiefs.
X Factor spokesman Rick Behari said: “We’ve spoken to Honey and she’s assured us she has not taken drugs while being on the show.”
Yesterday The Sun’s Bizarre TV column revealed Honey had been forced to increase her security after a sick online hoax claimed she had been fatally shot in a gang attack.
