Elton John feared two-week cocaine binge would kill him

Elton John has opened up the time he feared he’d die from a two-week cocaine binge.

Sir Elton says he was so terrified he’d “overdose or have a heart attack” that he checked into rehab to quit drugs for good.

Elton’s drug problem was heavily detailed in recent biopic Rocketman, which saw him portrayed on the big screen by Taron Egerton.

And he’s written about just how bad his problem was in his new autobiography, which has been serialised in the Daily Mail .

The star says his life-altering binge came about after he became tired of drinking and using drugs and because of his relationship with a man called Hugh Williams, who accused him of being an addict.

He writes: “I went ballistic, screaming, shouting, saying the most hurtful things I could think of.

“Afterwards, I holed up alone in a rented house in London for two weeks, snorting cocaine and drinking whisky.

“On the rare occasions when I ate, I made myself sick immediately afterwards. I wouldn’t answer the phone. I wouldn’t answer the door. I didn’t wash, I didn’t get dressed. It was sordid. Awful.

“Eventually, I realised that if I carried on for a couple more days, I’d either overdose or have a heart attack. I had no idea how to live, but I didn’t want to die.”

Elton started using cocaine in 1974, but now the 72-year-old has been sober for almost 30 years.

His sobriety was kick-started when he was hospitalised in Chicago to be treated for cocaine, alcohol and food addictions.

Elton, who is now married to David Furnish and has two children, was then put on the Alcholics Anonymous 12-step programme and spent six weeks attending group meetings to turn his life around.

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