The Happy Mondays singer discusses UFOs, coming off drugs, children, Bez and losing his hair
There was a period of my life where it felt like everyone was worried about my health. I’m doing great these days. That said, I just had a hip operation and all my hair has fallen out. My eyebrows, my eyelashes, my pubic hair, armpit hair – even my fingernails. The doctors don’t know what it is. I have an underactive thyroid and I don’t make testosterone, so I reckon it might be something to do with that. But I’m tough. If I was Peter Andre or someone, I wouldn’t leave the house.
Men don’t have to grow up like
Women do. Women are expected to grow up with every year that passes. Men can get away with being kids until they’re at least 40 – I did. I was still living the same lifestyle I had been when I was 16. But I wasn’t a kid any more. The stuff I’d done when I was younger – drugs – had to go. My kids were getting older. The last thing I wanted to do was embarrass them.