Hellraiser Ronnie Wood says his brain has a unique “valve” which saved him from overdosing.
The Rolling Stones guitarist reckons he is still alive because the circuit breaker stopped him going too far during his legendary drink and drugs binges.
Reflecting on his life of excess in the 1970s and 1980s, he said: "Luckily I had a valve that cut off, if it was going to be too much in my body, that said ‘no, don’t go over, don’t cross this line, otherwise you will not make it’.
“It was always ever present that it could be a stopping point or too much.
"If I do not control this then I would shoot off the edge of the precipice.”
Ronnie, 73, who beat lung cancer in recent years, has boasted previously about his out-of-control “ragers” on booze, cocaine and heroin.
Some of his peers, including Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and John Bonham, died because of their rock’n’roll lifestyles.
Music fans have wondered how the likes of Ronnie and bandmate Keith Richards, 76, managed to survive their notorious drink and drug habits.
Ronnie, who has been in the business for 56 years, also said he learnt a few life lessons from the likes of his old manager, the late Peter Grant, who he described as a “brute”.
Ronnie quit drink and drugs in 2010. He then married theatre producer Sally Humphreys, who is 31 years his junior, in 2012. They have four-year-old twin girls.
Dad-of-six Ronnie says the forthcoming Stones album alongside singer Sir Mick Jagger, 77, will be exciting and has “revitalised us”.
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