George Michael talks drugs and sex with strangers

Dec 5 2009

GEORGE Michael has spoke candidly of his drug use and cruising for sex with strangers, saying “it’s just who I am”.

The former Wham! star confirmed he was caught in possession of crack cocaine when arrested last year in public toilets on Hampstead Heath, a gay cruising area near his north London home. But, asked when he had last smoked the class A drug, he declined to answer.

The singer said he had cut back on cannabis and smokes only “seven or eight” spliffs per day instead of 25.

The 46-year-old defended “cottaging” on the Heath, saying it was “nicer” than picking up men in bars.

“The handful of times a year it’s bloody warm enough, I’ll do it. I’ll do it on a nice summer evening.

“Quite often there are campfires up there,” he said.

“It’s a much nicer place to get some quick and honest sex than standing in a bar, E’d off your tits shouting at somebody and hoping they want the same thing as you do in bed.”

In the last decade Michael has had run-ins with the law. In 1998 he was arrested in public toilets in Los Angeles for “engaging in a lewd act” and was cautioned for possessing cannabis after being found asleep at the wheel of his car on twice in 2006.