Tom Parker opens up about drug struggles in posthumous autobiography
16.05.2022 - 19:15
/ dailyrecord.co.uk
In his posthumous autobiography, Tom Parker revealed how his cannabis use spiralled out of control to the point where he stole from his parents.
The Wanted star tragically died at the age of 33 in March, almost two years after being diagnosed with stage-four incurable glioblastoma multiforme brain tumour in summer 2020.
Written before his death Tom's autobiography, Hope, he detailed the issues in his past with the drug but revealed that it helped him with pain relief in his final moments.
In an excerpt from the book, published in The Sun he detailed his struggles with the drug: "I only ended up lasting six months doing geography at Manchester Met before I f***ed it off.
"After I was kicked out of uni, my weed habit started to become a problem.
"My parents, Noreen and Nigel, are quite liberal-minded, but they couldn’t accept the person that I was becoming and we had a lot of arguments about my cannabis use.
"Over the space of a couple of years I’d gone from casually smoking with my mates to full-on addiction.
"We would do pretty much anything to get high.
"I’m ashamed to say that eventually extended to taking stuff from my parents’ house and pawning it at Cash Converters — videos, jewellery, anything that could get me a few quid.
"That’s how much I’d lost control of who I was.
"The final straw came when somebody posted a birthday card through the door for Mum. I opened it and stole the crisp £10 notes that had been folded inside.
"My parents had to take extreme measures in the hope that I might learn to understand the damaging path that I was on — they kicked me out of our family home.
"I ended up on a sofa in my mate Wayne’s house around the corner for the next few months. I continued this downward spiral — more weed, more