Rocker Eric Clapton's excessive drinking and drug use meant he did not have sex sober until he was into his 30s. The Layla singer, 62, admits he can barely remember a thing about certain periods of his youth - least of all his sexual encounters.

He says, "I came from treatment the first time and couldn't perform with my wife. It never occurred to me I had never had sex without being stoned. I'd get drunk first then be kind of guided through it."

In a revealing interview to be aired on Britain's The South Bank Show next month, Clapton admits he only kicked the booze after experiencing "dark dark suicidal thoughts" on a 1987 tour of Australia.

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