Parade.com has a very revealing interview with Grammy Award-winning singer and actor Rick Springfield today. In his painfully confessional autobiography Late, Late At Night, Springfield serves up details of his tormented childhood and a years-long struggle with sex addiction that threatened to destroy his marriage and career.
Here are some highlights:
No holds barred…
“I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what’s painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography. Sex with different women was a habit for me. When you’re married with a family, you start to understand what you might lose, including even your sanity. The danger in promiscuity is that it’s always barking at your heels.”
Sex can be like a drug…
“It becomes the thing that you use to make you feel good. It’s not, ‘Oh, I’m feeling turned on tonight.’ It’s a power thing. It’s like, ‘If I have sex with this pretty girl that’s got to mean something — she is OK with having sex with me. So there must be something OK about me’ — because you start so far down in your own self-esteem. That’s my home down there, and I’ve had to fight that depression all of my life.”
Will his fans be surprised?
“I think some of them probably suspected even worse. But there’s a lot of things in the book that I’ve never talked about, starting out with my attempt at suicide at the age of 17. It’s one of the most terrible things, and it comes back to haunt you, especially once you have kids. I was there mentally. I was ready to go. I’ve tried to show in the book how much a gift my life has been because I didn’t succeed.”
Check out the full interview here: http://www.parade.com/celebrity/celebrity-parade/2010/1015-rick-springfield.html
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