Pink: 'I took heroin'

Pop punk Pink took heroin when she was a teenager, but she turned her back on the opiate aged just 16 as she focused on succeeding as a singer.

The Just Like A Pill hitmaker has witnessed the devastation the narcotic can cause with her own eyes - three of her close friends have died after overdosing.

She says: "Heroin is a horrible thing. I've seen first hand what it can do to people and it's not pretty. I was never that much into it to need treatment.

"But you name it, I took it. I buried three friends from heroin overdoses. I just stopped one day on Thanksgiving 1995 and never touched them again."

And the 26-year-old insists she only dabbled in drugs to alleviate the boredom of her early adolescence in Pennsylvania.

She continues: "For me drugs were just a distraction on the way to my ultimate goal, which is what I'm doing today. I found my chance and I wanted to go for it and knew I was going to have to work for it.

"Boredom is a big cause of a lot of problems for a lot of people. I was performing so I wasn't bored any more. I had something to do."