KEANE STAR TOM CHAPLIN ON HIS REHAB

Tom Chaplin of Keane

Keane star Tom Chaplin contemplated suicide during the darkest days of his drug addiction.The singer also revealed he walked out on his band during a Japanese tour last August and went straight to rehab to beat his alcohol and cocaine problems.Tom - who was taking up to two grams of cocaine a day - revealed to Britain's Q Magazine: "I was at the end of my tether in Japan. I was tired of my life and feeling pretty suicidal."I got off the plane and phoned my dad. I'd told him that I'd left the band and that I was falling apart. I checked myself into The Priory."During his stay at world famous rehab centre The Priory, Tom said he felt as if he'd been "brainwashed" and had "joined a cult". Despite his own drugs hell, Tom says it's a personal decision to experiment with substances. He claims troubled rock star Pete Doherty should be left to take all the drugs he wants.Tom said: "No-one's got any right to stop him killing himself."

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