Jo Wood, the second ex-wife of Rolling Stones’ rocker Ronnie Wood, claims in her new memoir that she and the musician once “smuggled smack” into the Bahamas back in 1978.
In an early excerpt from her tell-all, “It’s Only Rock ‘N’ Roll: 30 Years Married To A Rolling Stone” published by RadarOnline, the former model claimed that an alleged “sharp suited” dealer named Victor had them sneak cigarettes laced with heroin during their vacation to Nassau.
She wrote that while Victor was on their flight to the island nation, he was “acting like a mad man as he was smoking ‘dirty cigarettes’ or DCs – little roll-ups containing smack – which he was intending to take in to the Bahamas.”
Jo claimed that Ronnie snuck into the plane’s bathroom, allegedly to indulge as well. “I didn’t touch them, as they had the most revolting smell — if I think about it even now I gag — but Ronnie went into the bathroom for a sneaky puff.”
She recalled, “Shortly after he stumbled back to his seat, a flight attendant came over and crouched next to me [and said], ‘Excuse me, but I think your friend has left this in the toilet.’”
“Oh god, I’m sorry,” he said. “Thank you ever so much. I’ll get rid of them.”
Jo wrote, “She smiled warmly. ‘Not to worry. Would you like another drink?’”
As the flight descended, Jo wrote that Victor then “dumped the bag of drugs” in her lap.
“As he was a drugs trafficker, I assumed that Victor would already have a plan in place to smuggle his stash through Customs, but as we started our descent he suddenly dumped the bag in my lap. It turned out that I was the plan.”
Jo claimed that Ronnie then “got a carton of duty-free cigarettes, removed all the cigarettes from the middle packet, stuffed Victor’s stash in there, then carefully packed it up again to look like new.”
As they went through Customs, she recalled that agents “immediately zeroed in on me; I must have been giving off guilty vibes.”
She continued, “as they went through my bag, I offered up a silent prayer of thanks that we hadn’t hidden the stash in there. Then the inspector held up the duty-free bag containing the carton of cigarettes. ‘Is this yours?’ he asked me.
“’No,’ I said, pointing at Victor. ‘They’re his!’ I was damned if I was going to risk life in prison for him.
“As Victor scowled at me, the inspector took out one packet and carefully checked inside, but to everyone’s immense relief it wasn’t the doctored one and we were finally waved through.”
Jo and Ronnie were married for 30 years and have two children together. Jo’s memoir will be released May 21.