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Article: Addicted to a game of Russian roulette Having fallen off the wagon and into the arms of a teenager, rehab is the best place for Ronnie Wood, says Barry Egan.
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- Sunday Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland)
- Article date:
- July 20, 2008
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Addicted to a game of Russian roulette
Having fallen off the wagon and into the arms of a teenager, rehab is the best place for Ronnie Wood, says Barry Egan
MICK and Keith tried to make him go into rehab. He said yeah yeah, man. It was immediately prior to the Rolling Stones world tour in early 2006, when Ronnie Wood fell unceremoniously off the wagon.
Again.
It was, he recalled later that summer, his fifth visit to rehab (the Priory in London and Cottonwood in Arizona, among others).
"Or maybe it was my sixth?" Ronnie mumbled. "What can I say? I'm an alcoholic; it's what I do. Obviously, normal people don't go out to work ...