SUNDAY MAIL EXCLUSIVE: The Trainspotting writer believes he is lucky to be alive he he talks about the launch of the second series of TV hit drama, Crime.
Irvine Welsh has revealed just how close he’s come to death thanks to drink, drugs and total recklessness.
He a bad electric shock when he was working as an apprentice TV repairman after leaving school in Edinburgh. “I had a bad electric shock one time when I was an apprentice and I was hospitalised by that. I had a drowning experience in the Phoenix Hotel in San Francisco, in the pool, in the 1990s. I was saved by a vodka promotions model from Boston.
“If we were in Rio, for example, you run into these guys in a bar and they’re saying, ‘We have party in the favela ,’ I’m right up there. Then you end up in some kind of favela and you’re kind of with this lassie and then her boyfriend or something comes in and then you’re doing a runner on the back of somebody’s motorbike.
“The bus crash was almost the start of me getting involved in hard drugs. I was getting involved with heroin. The old man had died, I almost died myself in this bus crash – and a young guy died in it – so there was a nihilistic thing, like, ‘What the f*** is this all about? I’ll just do what I want to do and I don’t care,’ basically.
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