S Membership 7’s Jon Lee has opened up about his previous struggles with medication and the way crystal meth ‘nearly killed’ him.
The pop star rose to prominence in 1998 when the band was fashioned by ex-Spice Women supervisor Simon Fuller, additionally comprising Tina Barrett, Paul Cattermole, Bradley McIntosh, Jo O’Meara, Hannah Spearritt, and Rachel Stevens.
Lee rejoined the pop group for smaller reunions within the 2010s, together with the 2023 enviornment tour, which passed off with out Spearritt, who left when Cattermole died of coronary heart failure.
In a brand new interview, the 43-year-old singer has admitted he as soon as spent £250 per week on crystal meth, a behavior that started lengthy after S Membership’s heyday.
It additionally led to him being sectioned in 2019.
‘I didn’t even recognise myself at the moment,’ he recalled. ‘Typically, within the midst of one of many psychotic episodes the place I’d be smashing my flat up with a hammer, I’d catch sight of myself within the mirror and say, “What the f**ok?”‘
Crystal meth, a extremely addictive leisure and performance-enhancing drug, can enhance power ranges and confidence within the brief time period, however its longer-term well being impacts might be devastating, resembling severe despair, nervousness, reminiscence loss, aggression, and hallucinations.
On the way it took over his life, Lee mirrored to MailOnline: ‘I’d have a second of lucidity, considering, “I used to be a profitable younger man; I had a superb profession, unbelievable life. What am I doing?”‘
There have been factors when he discovered himself with ‘holes within the partitions round [him]’ and ‘cuts throughout [his] knuckles’, in addition to a ‘swollen eye’ from punching himself within the head.
Lee would sleep with a hammer beneath his mattress, as soon as breaking down his toilet door out of paranoia after hallucinations satisfied him there have been different folks in his condo.
‘I didn’t look something like Jon from S Membership, or what folks would anticipate Jon from S Membership to appear to be,’ he admitted, having additionally shaved his head in his thirties.
His dependancy struggles got here to a head when involved neighbours referred to as police, after which the Attain hitmaker was sectioned, having been transported to a clinic by way of ambulance.
Acknowledging that he was a ‘hazard to [himself]’, he stated somebody would sit outdoors his room, and he needed to depart the door open.
Lee, who additionally took the celebration drug GHB, which is a sort of liquid ecstasy, now has immense ‘remorse’ for what his household went by throughout that interval.
‘I’m unsure how I’m nonetheless right here,’ he acknowledged, having beforehand taken 4 instances the dose in his darkest moments with the intention of not waking up the following day.
He additionally used exhausting medication as a distraction from his grief after his dad’s loss of life from Motor Neurone Illness (MND) in 2014.
Whereas as soon as unable to depart his flat for days on finish, Lee went travelling three years in the past to seek out himself.
In India, he met a rescue canine, which he claims gave him a brand new function, leading to him returning to the UK in 2022 with three rescues of his personal.
Lee moved to Cornwall, dwelling subsequent door to his mum and sister.
Profession-wise, Lee is ready to look on the following collection of Celebs Go Relationship.
And it’s believed Lee discovered the love he was searching for within the pre-recorded E4 collection, as he’s now stated to be relationship Jordan Fairhurst.
The performer, who got here out publicly as homosexual in 2010, is claimed to have felt sparks fly ‘immediately’ upon assembly his new boyfriend beneath the relationship company.
‘There was an actual connection there from the get-go, and issues developed actually rapidly,’ a supply advised The Solar. ‘They’ve been on a number of dates on the present, however now they’re official and in a full-blown relationship.’
‘Jon by no means anticipated to seek out one thing severe on the present, however Jordan actually took him without warning,’ added the insider.
‘Followers will see how the connection develops on the present, however it’s one of many love tales of the collection. It’s all very candy.’
MORE: Grammy-nominated singer Robbie Pardlo dies aged 46
MORE: Robbie Williams releasing the album he really wished to after quitting Take That
MORE: Supernanny star Jo Frost, 55, reveals she suffers from ‘life-threatening’ medical situation
