Phil Collins details serious alcoholism: ‘People were coming to say goodbye’
Photograph: Clemens Bilan/EPAView image in fullscreenPhil Collins performing in 2019. “My kidneys were packing up, my organs were just seizing up. But I don’t remember them coming, I didn’t have no idea this was going on.
- ▪Photograph: Clemens Bilan/EPAView image in fullscreenPhil Collins performing in 2019.
- ▪“My kidneys were packing up, my organs were just seizing up.
- ▪But I don’t remember them coming, I didn’t have no idea this was going on.
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Phil Collins performing in 2019. Photograph: Clemens Bilan/EPAView image in fullscreenPhil Collins performing in 2019. Photograph: Clemens Bilan/EPAPhil CollinsPhil Collins details serious alcoholism: ‘People were coming to say goodbye’Pop and rock legend tells Sunday Times of drinking problem and ill health after final Genesis tour in 2021Ben Beaumont-ThomasMon 3 Aug 2026 05.01 EDTLast modified on Mon 3 Aug 2026 05.02 EDTSharePrefer the Guardian on GooglePhil Collins has said that he suffered life-threatening alcoholism in recent years.Speaking to the Sunday Times, the pop and rock legend, 75, said that his drinking began after he stopped taking Antabuse, a drug that causes illness if alcohol is consumed, which he had been using since an earlier period of alcoholism.Collins describes…
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