Former Pop Star Jason Donovan has owned up to overdosing at Kate Moss' 21st birthday party in the 1995.
Donovan is reaching for the headlines in his autobiography "Between The Lines: My Life Uncut" and has certainly achieved that today.The former Neighbours star and boyfriend of Kylie Minogue says the incident happened at LA's famed Viper Club on the Sunset Strip, where just 12 months earlier, River Phoenix collapsed and died of a drug overdose.
"The Viper Room had always had a wild reputation but after Johnny's friend River Phoenix had collapsed and died outside the club a year earlier, having overdosed on a heroin and cocaine speedball, I didn't think it was wise to advertise the fact that I had drugs on me".
"With my hotel just a stone's throw from the club, my plan was to leave my drugs in my room and return there as and when I needed them".
"It seemed like a good plan, but as the night went on I found myself running back and forth like a crazed dog, desperate not to miss the party yet hungry for my next fix."
"By midnight the entire party had hit the dancefloor. Gloria Gaynor had just finished singing Happy Birthday to Kate when Johnny and Michael took to the stage."
"With Johnny on guitar, Michael started to sing the Van Morrison classic Gloria and we were all cheering as we danced. The pair were halfway through the song, belting out the chorus, when I realised I was about to go."
"I knew the symptoms all too well, for it was not the first time this had happened to me. My heart was racing, my vision was blurring and I was becoming disorientated. I tried to steady myself but my legs buckled under me and I fell to the floor."
"I am not sure what happened next but I do know that someone had pulled the plug on the music and was calling for an ambulance."
"A crowd had circled round me and Michael was standing over me trying to empty my trouser pockets."
""Have you got anything on you?" he kept asking me. I tried to speak but couldn't. "It wouldn't be cool if anything was found on you by the medics," he whispered."
"I must have blacked out again after that - the next memory I have is of being carried out of the club by paramedics on a stretcher."
"When I came round the next time I was in the ambulance and I clearly remember the sound of the siren."
"I was taken to the Cedars-Sinai hospital and was seen by an Australian doctor, which for some reason I found vaguely comforting."
Donovan says he was 18 when he first started his cocaine habit.
"I was on one of my publicity jaunts for Neighbours and I remember a press officer at an event at the Inter Continental Hotel in Sydney offering me a line."
"Being a bit of a pothead I wasn't shocked, for once you have crossed that line with drugs and stopped seeing them as a great taboo then you are pretty much up for anything."
The book, "Between The Lines: My Story Uncut" will be released on October 1 by HarperCollins.
