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You crop up in his book, and it is not a
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very flattering portrait of you.
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>> The only reason he wrote all that stuff
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about me in his book. I caught up with
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him one day. I was about 5 years, maybe
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not maybe yeah, 5 years clean sober. And
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I hadn't spoken to him for ages. And I
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said, "Let's go and have a burger." And
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we sat down and he said, "Oh, what do
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you want to drink?" I said, "I'll just
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get a soft drink." He said, "Oh, not
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drinking?" I said, "No, mate. I don't
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drink anymore." He said, "How come?" I
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said, "Look, I've got something I want
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to tell you." I said, "I was a drug
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addict." And he said, "When?" I said,
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"Mate, when you were sitting beside me."
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I mentored Gary when he came onto the
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desk. He was a young kid and he was from
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you know, the East End. And I thought,
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"This I'm going to look after this guy
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because he's he's not our normal
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run-of-the-mill graduate. And I don't
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want anyone to take the piss out of
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him." And so we got close. We weren't so
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close at the end because
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of some stuff. I said, "Look, I was a
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bit hard on you at the end. I want to
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make an amends to you." And he said,
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"Oh, so you were a drug addict? What?
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You were using cocaine?" I said, "Mate,
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I sat beside you. I'd get 3 g delivered
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9:00 a.m. every morning." He said, "When
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I sit beside you." I said, "Mate, I said