Elton: I wasted a big part of my life

Elton John admits he "wasted" a massive chunk of his life due to drugs and addiction.

Elton John admits he "wasted" a massive chunk of his life due to drugs and addiction.

The 65-year-old singer believes he was too "self-absorbed" to notice that he was destroying a big part of his life during the beginning of the AIDS epidemic in the early 1980s, despite so many of his friends dying around him.

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