How Perry Farrell Helped John Frusciante Get Off Heroin

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March 12, 2023 – ‘Okay, let’s get you to the hospital right now.’ I had this bag of about an ounce of Persian heroin and about an ounce of cocaine, and I was just doing as much as I could in the hospital parking lot. Finally, we go in, and Perry was like … saying to the nurses, ‘Listen, I’m going to be really honest with you, he’s really on a lot of drugs right now, so why don’t you wait on giving him any medication.’”

“I couldn’t get any enjoyment about being alive anymore,” Frusciante admitted. “Being on heroin and cocaine all the time, I felt like myself again.” Farrell became an important lifeline to the outside world, someone who both supported his friend during his drug addiction and gently edged him toward recovery. As it happened, Farrell helped Frusciante get through a particularly drug-fuelled experience.

“I once called Perry at like seven in the morning and said, ‘How do you get snakes out of your eyes?” Frusciante added. “He said, ‘What?’ I said, ‘There are snakes in my eyes. How do I get rid of them?’ I’d be looking in my bathroom mirror at these little snakes in my eyes. I’d even hear them talk, they’d make weird little noises and stuff. A snake would poke his head out, and I’d try to grab it.