Will Young says he was ‘terrible’ at taking drugs during ‘wild phase’

Will Young has opened up about “being terrible” at taking drugs during a “wild phase” he embarked on when he rose to fame in the Noughties . The “Evergreen” singer, who won the inaugural Pop Idol aged 22 in 2002, was speaking on Jamie Laing ’s Great Company podcast when he recalled the first time he started taking drugs at the beginning of his career. The singer, now 45, said: “I had my sort of like, wild phase.

I remember thinking, Oh, I should take some drugs now, because I’d never taken drugs. You know?” “I remember the drug dealer getting me in his car, and then he brought his girlfriend around to meet me,” he recalled. But it was comments made by a friend that made Young realise that drug-taking wasn’t the path for him.

He explained: “I tried that for a bit, and then I remember my friend saying to me, ‘You’re not a very good drug taker. I don’t think you’re a drug taker.’ I said, I think you’re right!” Young’s comments come just weeks after the singer claimed he was “pressured” to continue competing in Strictly Come Dancing by his team, after he asked to pull out of the competition because he was dealing with extreme agoraphobia.

When he dropped out after three weeks on the BBC show in 2016 , Young cited personal reasons. But speaking with Rylan Clark on his BBC podcast How To Be In The Spotlight about his time on Strictly, Young said: “I tried to pull out of it, but I was sort of pressured to do it. “It was sort of lik.