Former teen idol Leif Garrett’s life took a horrible downward spiral

guess its an adrenalin push for them. They just freak out. Its very weird Garrett told New York Daily News in 1979.
But even though his music was close to topping the charts he struggled with management that made him feel like a fraud. The crossover to adulthood was also a challenge for Garrett.
I think I was a good performer from the getgo but I wish they had offered me singing lessons before ever making a record and doing the typical punching in a sentence here or there or words or whatever Garret said in an interview.
Theres a particular track I Was Looking for Someone to Love that doesnt even sound like me at all. I would even possibly say I wasnt even on that track. And to me that IS fraud. Thats like a Milli Vanilli situation the difference being of course mine was blended many times with myself and somebody else.
UNSPECIFIED CIRCA 1970 Photo of Leif Garrett Photo by Michael Ochs ArchivesGetty Images
Garretts career started to go downhill in 1979 when drunk and drugged he crashed a car and sent it tumbling down a hillside in North Hollywood leaving his thenclose friend Ronald Winkler a paraplegic.
But that wasnt enough for Garret whose life continued its negative spiral.
In 1980 a time he describes in his book as the apex of pinup fame Garret revelled in sex drugs and rock and roll with the legendary frontman of Queen Freddie Mercury who was at the time recording the hugely successful album The Game which featured the hits Crazy Little Thing Called Love and Another One Bites the Dust. Garrett said he became friends with the band who showed him a real rock star life with girls and drugs.
In an interview with Fox for the release of his memoir Idol Truth Garrett saidI dont think I was a very mature 16yearold. I became mature very quickly because I was always surrounded by adults who were drinking and doing coke. I was a child but being treated as an adult And all of this was coming out of my pocket.
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