Keith Richards 'snorted father's ashes'

[janbo1960]

Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards has admitted snorting his own father's ashes.

"The strangest thing I've tried to snort? My father, I snorted my father," he told British music paper New Musical Express (NME).

"He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow (cocaine). My dad wouldn't have cared.

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

Richards, whose father Bert died in 2002 at the age of 84, has been notorious for his drug use since the Stones became worldwide stars in the 1960s.

But he also directed an angry tirade at fellow drug-user Pete Doherty, the frontman of British band Babyshambles currently dating supermodel Kate Moss, who he predicted could be killed by his love of narcotics.

"My advice for Pete Doherty is that he should ... leave her," he said.

"I don't know the man, all I know is he's pushing his luck and there it is, but so is Kate, who I know very well.

"Kate wants to play with bad boys and she's done one, and then another one, and then another one. Badabing, badabing, badaboom. She'll live, the boys will die."

As well as co-writing hits such as Brown Sugar and Satisfaction, Richards has become known in recent years as the inspiration for Johnny Depp's character Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean films.

[girldorksrule]

Hysterical.

[eefanincan]

If it's true, that's just a sick thing to do.

[major.tom]

He's probably snorted everything else...

[IRiSHMaFIA]

[Brown Sauce]

I heard this on the radio this morning, and thought, "ah, it's him again". But I also must have thought that he did this some years ago, when he was a real bad boy, because I was so surprised that he did it sometime in the last 5 years.

Will the geezer last as long as his dear ol' dad, he has probably looked older than him for a couple of decades ...

[Bob]

I almost pissed myself when I heard this....very rude, but still, very funny....

[Lostinthestates]

What a plonker!!!

[Skylace]

I heard on the news this morning that he may have said it all as a publicity stunt. Who knows. But I wouldn't put it past him.

[faceless]

"He's dead and he's still getting up my nose!"

[vegas]

Looks like an April fool joke

[fritz]

[girldorksrule]

I don't find it rude at all actually. When I was getting high, it was honorable and respectful to do shit like that. We all had an agreement that when I died, everyone would smoke my lungs. Gross, but true.

[IRiSHMaFIA]

[Aja]

Once A C&NT Always A C&NT