What is it with all these celebs? All the money?
I didn't know this guy was heavily addicted to amphetamines. "Friends joked about his "nervousness" and erratic behavior, many ignoring the warning signs of his worsening
drug addiction."
"In a behind-the-scenes look at
The Johnny Cash Show, Cash claims to have "tried every drug there was to try.""
Despite landing in jail seven times for
misdemeanors, each stay lasted only a single night. His most infamous run-in with the law occurred while on tour in 1965, when he was arrested by a
narcotics squad in
El Paso, Texas. The officers suspected that he was
smuggling heroin from
Mexico, but it was prescription narcotics and amphetamines that the singer had hidden inside his guitar case. Because they were prescription drugs rather than illegal narcotics, he received a
suspended sentence.
Cash was also arrested on May 11, 1965, in
Starkville, Mississippi, for
trespassing late at night onto private property to pick flowers.
Cash quit using drugs in 1968, after a spiritual
epiphany in the
Nickajack Cave, when he attempted to commit suicide while under the heavy influence of drugs.
He descended deeper into the cave, trying to lose himself and "just die", when he passed out on the floor. He reported to be exhausted and feeling at the end of his rope when he felt God's presence in his heart and managed to struggle out of the cave (despite the exhaustion) by following a faint light and slight breeze. To him, it was his own rebirth.
Just some facts on a weirdo named Johnny Cash (Among many)
Too bad all these legends die. If you want to compare on a global scale, Cash was probably a little tip on Michael Jacksons middle Finger on the diamond glove he wore or in sports terms, Jock Strap ( That Jackson sometimes wore), but Cash was still important overall.