Gallagher quit drugs when teeth started falling out

Outspoken Oasis star Noel Gallagher knew it was time to give up drugs when his teeth started falling out in the late 1990s.

Outspoken Oasis star Noel Gallagher knew it was time to give up drugs when his teeth started falling out in the late 1990s.

The Wonderwall hitmaker has no regrets about his years taking every kind of drug he was offered, but quickly realised he was surrounded by unsavoury people when he got sober.

He says: "My teeth were falling out… We were at a party one night and then I got up and thought, 'I can't be bothered (to take drugs) today.'

"Then one day turned into a week and that turned into a month, then that into a year.

"As that state of mind took hold I would go out with the people I was surrounded with at the time, I'd be sitting there thinking: 'I don't even like you, your bird's an idiot! What you doing in my front room? Get out of here!'"

Gallagher hasn't touched drugs for eight-and-a-half years.

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