Former Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher has opened up about his health woes and admitted that downing pints of lager and taking drugs has left him struggling with his health.
Despite being in his prime during the hay-days of Oasis, Gallagher is suffering the consequences as his joints flare up, suffers from psoriasis and is no longer able to go jogging following a hip operation.
He has since admitted that he is battling to extend his life and counter his years of hard partying: “You’ve got to undo all the bad work you’ve done through f***ing getting off your head and all that.
“It’s time to undo it all now and get back to reality. All that stuff that you thought was cool in the early days . . . it’s time to get healthy.”
His health kick has seen him cut back on alcohol, drugs and fags and getting up at 4am every day, learning that life is precious.
“As you get older, you’re getting closer to wherever you’re meant to be going. I have my days when I’m f***ing buzzing about everything and then I have days when I’m just like, ‘This is s**t’, as in life — you know what I mean?
“Even though I’ve got everything, I mean, it’s just not enough. Sometimes I just want the answers now — where are we going, why are we here, what are we doing? But it’s just not possible.
“But other than that I’m a pretty happy-go-lucky guy. I love waking up early in the morning. Round about six or seven I start nodding off. But early doors I’m up four o’clock in the morning — come on!”
Into his 40s, Gallagher admitted that he found it hard to just have a single drink and would often stay out until the early hours of the morning.
Back in 2017, the singer revealed he had been diagnosed with Hashimoto’s disease – an autoimmune condition of the thyroid gland – affecting his singing voice.
Last year, he also underwent a hip operation and had to cut back on the jogging which became part of his fitness routine.
Discussing the setback, he revealed: “My hips are fed. I’ve got arthritis, bad. I went to get it checked out and my bones are mashed up.
“I can’t sleep at night for the pain. Tossing and turning. So I’m on herbal sleeping tablets and they’ve saved my life.
"One of them, seven hours out, no pain. I’m definitely on the downwards slide, though. But we’re all going to die, aren’t we?”
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Liam also told of suffering from skin condition psoriasis and added: “I remember meeting someone, some very strange kid, who came up to me and thought I had cocaine in my hair.
“I’ve got psoriasis, so I had obviously been scratching it during the day and there were little white bits and s**t. They were taking it out of my hair and putting it on their gums and putting it up their f***ing nose!”
