Prince's painkiller addiction started with bathtub accident
Prince's addiction to prescription pills started after a bathtub accident, it has been claimed. The late music legend turned to painkillers after suffering injuries when rehearsing for a performance in Minnesota on his tour promoting the 'Purple Rain' album. Prince had been planning to sing a song from the tub suspended in mid-air, but it collapsed during rehearsal and left him in terrible pain. Alan Leeds, his tour manager at the time, recalls in the new book 'Nothing Compares 2 U: An Oral History of Prince': "It fell 10 or 12 feet with him in it. I never moved so fast in my life. "After that...