He’s long been open about his battle with alcoholism and drug addition.
And now legendary rocker Jimmy Barnes has admitted that he attempted suicide in his hotel room in Auckland, in 2012.
The 61-year-old made the shock confession in a prologue of his new book, Working Class Man.
‘It’s not that easy to die, apparently’: Rocker Jimmy Barnes admits he attempted suicide in a hotel room after an eight day drug and booze bender…but vowed to fight his demons for wife Jane (seen in July 2012)
Jimmy wrote in the prologue that he woke up in his large hotel suite – where he was staying with wife Jane – not remembering that he tried to take his own life.
Jimmy said that he drank the minibar dry on the night and then attempted suicide.
‘Tied around the clothes rail is the dressing gown cord, just where I must have left it,’ Jimmy wrote, according to The Daily Telegraph.
‘Tied around the clothes rail is the dressing gown cord’: Jimmy said that he drank the minibar dry on the night and then attempted suicide (pictured in 2001)
His rock: The Scottish-born star is pictured with wife Jane
‘The rail, the cord and me with the cord around my neck waiting to die. But I didn’t. It’s not that easy to die, apparently,’ he said.
In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, the former Cold Chisel star said telling his wife Jane about the incident, made him turn his life around for good.
He admitted that on the night he attempted suicide, he hadn’t slept for eight days and had taken drugs including cocaine and ecstasy, ketamine, sleeping pills, ‘uppers and downers,’ and had been drinking.
‘I didn’t think I thought “I’m gonna go kill myself,” Jimmy said.
‘It was more a curiosity of how the hell do people do that, it can’t be that easy,’ he said.
Shock confession: He admitted that on the night he attempted suicide, he hadn’t slept for eight days and had taken drugs including cocaine and ecstasy, ketamine, sleeping pills, ‘uppers and downers,’ and had been drinking
Jimmy admitted he thinks the suicide attempt was a subconscious thing, after years of battling demons, including his childhood and addiction.
The Scottish-born star said he soon found a therapist to help him.
He also spoke about his hard-partying lifestyle over the years, and said he was once asked by a reporter about how many women he slept with.
He said he told the reporter to ‘f**k off’ and said ‘thousands.’
Opening up: Jimmy admitted he thinks the suicide attempt was a subconscious thing, after years of battling demons, including his childhood and addiction
Rock and roll: He also spoke about his hard-partying lifestyle over the years, and said he was once asked by a reporter about how many women he slept with, and replied ‘thousands’