MY DRUG HELL: While we're fascinated that Lee Ryan once took so much cocaine he thought he was going to die - how much would that be, exactly, Lee, we're kind of puzzled that he's going public about it in a bid to warn The Young Peoples off the drugsmackcrack bandwagon. Ryan warns:

"I've seen what cocaine can do to people and it is bad. My message to young fans is 'Don't take drugs, it can ruin your life'."


Some of The Young People consider Ryan's warning

But Lee has said he took a portion of cocaine when he was fifteen and his life is somewhat sweet: a steady job, a modicum of fame, access to groupies of all shapes and sizes - all achieved with the minimum of brain power and on a wafer-thin talent ('looks good in jeans'). How, exactly, did snorkling drugs ruin your life, Lee?

Having said which, there is a clear signalling of the danger of the overblown ego which coke abuse can give you:

"I realise I am a role model for young people..."

Another snort and he'd have been the King of Fuckin' Rock, too, La.