In another jaw-dropper from Jo Wood’s upcoming memoir, the former wife of Rolling Stones’ guitarist Ronnie Wood details the shocking moment she met Keith Richards that then spiraled into a three-day, drug-filled binge in a Paris hotel in 1977.
Jo remembered in “It’s Only Rock ‘N’ Roll: 30 Years Married To A Rolling Stone” (via RadarOnline) that Richards entered the hotel room she shared with Ronnie, and, “without saying a word, or even looking at me, this dark-haired bloke sat down on the tiny square of carpet and started rummaging in what looked like a doctor’s bag.”
She recalled that Richards then “reached into his bag and took out a silver spoon, a bottle of pills and a lighter.”
“In a matter of seconds,” she continued, “he’d crushed some of the pills with a bit of water, cooked them up, then filled a syringe and stabbed it straight through his shirt. A moment’s pause — then he looked up at me with a radiant smile. ‘Hello, my dear. I’ve heard so much about you!’”
Jo then detailed how they spent “the next three days cooped up in my broom-cupboard of a hotel room, drinking and taking drugs, only occasionally venturing out in Keith’s Bentley to get a fix or a bite to eat. Food was not a priority: you don’t have much of an appetite on coke.”
Of the memory, Jo called it the “time of [her] life, getting high on coke and drunk on Southern Comfort and lemonade.”
She added, “I’m proud to say that I kept up with the boys all the way, matching them drink for drink, line for line. I can’t even remember getting hangovers at the beginning. I must have built my system up by drinking every day, like an athlete in training for a marathon. Quite simply, I took to the rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle like I’d been born to it.”
Jo and Ronnie’s 24-year marriage ended in 2009. Her memoir will be released tomorrow.