Shaun Ryder has told of his struggle to overcome coronavirus and how he thinks he is suffering from long Covid.
The former Happy Mondays star told on Breakfast on Wednesday morning how he thinks he contracted the deadly disease from his two daughters.
And he said virus has zapped him of all his energy and forced him to stay in bed for three weeks.
He said: "Every now and then, I wake up with no energy, and I spend that day falling asleep."
When he was quizzed if he thinks he has long Covid - which affects 500,000 people in the UK - Shaun said: "I haven't been told that but it just comes out of nowhere: I'm fine then - boom!"
"I get up one day and I'm gone, and I'm like that all day!"
The rock star told how he thinks he caught the bug from his daughters, who were asymptomatic after they attended a charity event in London.
He said: "We were out doing Stand Up To Cancer. We'd been to London, mixing with people, having Covid tests every day while we were filming.
"I got home - the two girls had got it but had no symptoms. I got it, ended up in bed for two or three weeks!"
Shaun, who was a drug addict for more than 20 years is adamant that his health problems, including hair loss, cannot be attributed to his drug taking.
He previously told the Guardian that although his health "is not what it used to be" and "crack and meth" eroded his teeth - his drug use has had no other effects.
Shaun, who suffers from alopecia and was diagnosed with ADHD last year, said: "I was a heroin addict for 20-odd years, but there's been no damage off that. I've never had anything wrong with me until I was 53."
He told how he has been using skin micropigmentation – a cosmetic technique used to replicate the natural look of features such as hair.
He said he started to lose his hair weeks after he had been advised by a doctor to stop using a testosterone gel that he had been prescribed due to an under-active thyroid.
Shaun said: "Within a week I had no beard, no hair, no hair on my body."
