Keith Richards snorted father's ashes

Keith Richards snorted father's ashes

The Times


Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards

Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards has admitted he once snorted his father's ashes.

The famously wild rock star made the admission in an interview with music magazine NME.

"He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow. My dad wouldn't have cared, he didn't give a s***.

"It went down pretty well, and I'm still alive."

The incident, after his father Bert died in 2002, was not, however, Richards' worst drugs experience.

In his decades of drug addiction, his nastiest experience involved strychnine, Richards told NME.

"It was when someone put strychnine in my dope. It was in Switzerland. I was totally comatose, but I was totally awake. I could listen to everyone, and they were like, 'He's dead, he's dead!', waving their fingers and pushing me about, and I was thinking, 'I'm not dead!'"

Now 63, Richards said he had outlived many who warned him he would die young.