Petty Confession

There’s a new Tom Petty biography written by Warren Zanes… and it looks like the book reveals Petty struggled with heroin addiction in the ’90s, a part of his life he hasn’t let out until now.

“The first thing [Petty] said to me on the subject is, ‘I am very concerned that talking about this is putting a bad example out there for young people. If anyone is going to think heroin is an option because they know my story of using heroin, I can’t do this,’” Zanes said in a recent interview with The Washington Post. “And I just had to work with him and say, ‘I think you’re going to come off as a cautionary tale rather than a romantic tale.’”

“I probably spent a month not getting out of bed, just waking up and going, ‘Oh, f—,’” Petty says in the biography. “The only thing that stopped the pain was drugs. But it was stupid. I’d never come up against anything that was bigger than me, something that I couldn’t control. But it starts running your life … I’m lucky I came through. Not everyone does.”

The biography is expected to be out Nov 10th.