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"Russell Brand has confessed that he would probably have died if he had not attended rehab.  Appearing on Piers Morgan&amp;#039;s Life Stories, the comedian - who has been sober for over six years - revealed that his rampant drug addiction led a friend and his manager John Noel to stage an intervention to force him into seeking treatment.  &amp;quot;I was probably six months away from - well [my friend] goes, &amp;#039;You need to stop taking drugs right now or in six months you&amp;#039;ll be in prison, a lunatic asylum or dead&amp;#039;. And that&amp;#039;s the first time anyone had said anything like that to me,&amp;quot; he recalled.  &amp;quot;I still thought, &amp;#039;Rehab, I don&amp;#039;t like the sound of that&amp;#039;. So that&amp;#039;s when John and [my friend] took me in a room... He said, &amp;#039;Russell needs to go away, because he&amp;#039;s doolally but he&amp;#039;s got to want to go for himself&amp;#039;.&amp;quot; However, he went on to insist that he was not initially keen on the idea of getting clean, adding: &amp;quot;The thing with drug addiction is the person themselves has to make that choice because it&amp;#039;s got to come from within, and I go, &amp;#039;Yeah, I don&amp;#039;t think I fancy it&amp;#039;. John went, &amp;#039;F**k that, you&amp;#039;re going&amp;#039;.&amp;quot; Brand recently admitted that going back to using heroin would mean giving up on life.  He has previously said that he once smuggled heroin in his bottom on a flight to Spain. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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