Ryan Adams claims he should be dead after revealing the full extent of his drug addictions.
The US star says he has been consuming enormous quantities of narcotics, including heroin, and alcohol in recent years, prompting "horrible nightmares".
However, he is now clean having endured a period of cold turkey, and has been attending AA meetings to cope with his problems.
Adams explained: "I snorted heroin a lot - with coke. I did speedballs every day for years. And took pills. And then drank. And I don't mean a little bit. I always outdid everybody...It's a miracle I did not die.
"I was running the risk of becoming one of those people who talks to himself all the time. I was about to walk over this line that there was no coming back from, and I could feel it. I was seeing ghosts and hearing stuff. Having horrible nightmares.
"I was creating as much distance from people as possible so that, in the event that something terrible happened, it wouldn't hurt them", he told the New York Times.
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