Keane star Tom Chaplin contemplated suicide during the darkest days of his drug addiction.

The singer also revealed he walked out on his band during a Japanese tour last August and went straight to rehab to beat his alcohol and cocaine problems.

Tom - who was taking up to two grams of cocaine a day - revealed to Britain's Q Magazine: "I was at the end of my tether in Japan. I was tired of my life and feeling pretty suicidal.

"I got off the plane and called my dad. I'd told him that I'd left the band and that I was falling apart. I checked myself into The Priory."

During his stay at world famous rehab center The Priory, Tom said he felt as if he'd been "brainwashed" and had "joined a cult."

Despite his own drugs hell, Tom says it's a personal decision to experiment with substances. He claims troubled rock star Pete Doherty should be left to take all the drugs he wants.

Tom said: "No-one's got any right to stop him killing himself."

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READER COMMENTS (3)
May 1, 2007 - 09:40AM
JUMP, MF's
May 1, 2007 - 01:24PM
You guys are committing suicide right now! You're just going slow-one drug at time.
May 15, 2007 - 06:59PM
Who the hell is that picture of? That is not Tom of KEANE!