I was hooked on secret £250-a-week crystal meth habit – I was sectioned before it killed me, reveals S Club's Jon Lee

Scottish Sun

19-07-2025

The noughties singer reveals the moment he hit rock bottom - and what saved him
DRUG HELL I was hooked on secret £250-a-week crystal meth habit – I was sectioned before it killed me, reveals S Club's Jon Lee
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S Club 7 singer Jon Lee has revealed he had a secret drug habit that led to 'psychotic episodes' where the police were called.
The Nineties pop star , who will soon appear on Celebs Go Dating, admitted he was blowing £250 a week of crystal meth and then trashing his flat with a hammer while out of it.
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Jon Lee has revealed he was spending £250 a week on crystal meth
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Jon with his S Club bandmates in their 90s heyday
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The singer admitted trying to hide his sexuality for years contributed to his decline
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Jon, 43, said his deadly habit nearly killed him and even saw him sectioned back in 2019.
Speaking to the Daily Mail, Jon revealed that he got into crystal meth - a highly addictive 'party' drug that can cause psychosis, hallucination, paranoia and mania - when he was in his thirties - long after S Club had gone their separate ways.
He revealed: "I didn't even recognise myself at that time. Sometimes, in the midst of one of the psychotic episodes where I'd be smashing my flat up with a hammer, I'd catch sight of myself in the mirror and say: 'What the f***?'.
"I'd have a moment of lucidity, thinking: 'I was a successful young man, I had a brilliant career, incredible life. What am I doing?'
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"I'd be standing there, holes in the walls around me, cuts all over my knuckles, my eye swollen from where I'd been punching myself in the head. I'd shaved my hair too. I didn't look anything like Jon-from-S Club – or what people would expect Jon-from-S Club to look like."
One night, six years ago, his neighbours were so concerned they called the police and Jon was taken to a clinic in an ambulance where he was sectioned.
"I remember I had to keep the door open, and someone sat outside. I suppose I was a danger to myself, " he recalled.
Jon also admitted he got into another party drug, GHB, a type of liquid ecstasy, which can easily be overdosed on.
In the depths of his despair, he claims he often took four times the dose, hoping he wouldn't wake up the next day.
"I'm not sure how I'm still here," he told the publication, admitting his "regret" at putting his family through such an ordeal.
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Jon, who has been openly gay since coming out in 2010, believes his issues were caused by finding fame at a young age and trying to hide his sexuality for years in the public eye.
He said he drank to curb the anxiety he felt about his sexual orientation being exposed, particularly in the days after the band broke up.
Working in musical theatre at the time, he admitted he drank most days and took cocaine, ecstasy and cannabis recreationally.
"If I didn't have work, I could drink three quarters of a bottle of gin in the afternoon" he confessed.
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Jon has told how he slept with a hammer under his bed
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The pop star said he drank daily and took party drugs after the band split
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But things got much darker after he lost his dad to Motor Neurone Disease in 2014, turning to harder drugs to escape his grief.
"I still can't believe I did it. I let a complete stranger inject me. It's the most disgusting, dangerous drug… and I went down that road," he bravely admitted.
As he got hooked on the drug, he was left unable to work and spent days on end in his flat having hallucinations that there were people in his appartment.
"I was terrified, I'd sleep with a hammer under the bed," he said, admitted he even smashed his head through the bathroom door in his paranoid state.
The tipping point, he admitted, was that fateful when the police took him to spend the night in a facility after his neighbours called them.
That wake up call saw him flee the country and go travelling for three years in a bid to find himself.
While he wasn't working, he was able to fund his globetrotting as he had invested in properties during his S Club days that he was getting a rental income from.
And it was on those travels in India that he found a rescue dog named Lolly, who he claims gave him a new purpose in life.
In 2022, he returned to the UK with three rescue dogs and moved back to Cornwall to live next door to his mum and his sister.
Around the same time, S Club reunited for a reunion tour, bringing him back on the road with his old pals.
Sadly, shortly after the band reunited they were hit with another tragedy as Paul Cattermole passed away.
While Jon was floored with grief, he claimed losing his friend made him even more determined not to waste his life on drugs.
"I think I used the time to unpick my own life, go back through everything – and try to put it all back together," he said. "I think it made me even more determined that I had to… live.'