Right Said Fred star tells of dropping drugs after health scare

RIGHT Said Fred star Fred Fairbrass has spoken about stopping abusing illicit drugs after falling ill with pneumonia.

In an interview with Mark Dolan on GB News, Right Said Fred brothers Richard and Fred Fairbrass also talked about their careers and being cancelled over their views on Covid vaccinations.

Asked about whether they have had problems with drug-taking, Fred admitted to binging on cocaine for weeks on end before giving up when he got ill.

“I was very fortunate. I know if I say this people won’t believe me but I used to do cocaine, cocaine was my particular weapon of choice and I never got addicted,” he said.

“I would do it for weeks and I just stopped for months, then I’d do it for weeks, then stop for months. I never needed rehab, I was very blessed that I could just stop.”

He said a doctor wrongly diagnosed him with a heart condition caused by cocaine when he actually had pneumonia.

“I became very ill because I had pneumonia. And literally the doctor said you’ve got cocaine heart…I was very ill, I thought it was through the drugs.

“It wasn’t, it was pneumonia, but it gave me a wake up call.”

Richard said that, despite doing well from selling over 30 million records, he and his brother have made some poor financial decisions.

Richard said: “We’ve done all right. Yeah, we should be very, very grateful.

“We have ploughed a lot of it back into some really bad, really bad ideas, so we’re very good at that, yeah.”

Fred added: “We’ve been on the road when the band’s too big, we’ve taken too many people on the road, the usual stuff.

“We bought a couple of things, we bought a modelling agency…”

When the pair spoke out against vaccinations during the Covid-19 pandemic, Fred said their work dried up instantly.

“The thing is with the band because we don’t work much in the UK, people tend to think that we’re at home watching re-runs of Top of the Pops and self-harming.

“We’ve had a very good career abroad and particularly with things like with TV commercials and shows actually, and so we’ve got the minute we spoke out, everything got pulled everything, everything.”

He said the situation has turned around and that they have no regrets about airing their views.

“There’s been a turn in the tide and as much as we used to get a lot of hate mail and that’s that’s almost pretty much gone,” said Fred.

“Now, people are generally quite nice.”