article_snippet.sent: he also confessed that he falsely told he friends that he was HIV positive, to generate attention and sympathy, and kept up the unpleasant pretence for five years.
article_snippet.sent: Within a few years he had taken a drug overdose, saying that in the 1970s being gay ‘was like being a paedophile now –
article_snippet.sent: he took large quantities of drugs, apparently spending a whole year in Ibiza on speed and ecstasy, and taking LSD.
article_snippet.sent: he believes the ecstasy was sometimes laced with heroin.