Chris Martin can become “very depressed” when he drinks.
The Coldplay frontman admits he is “not really a great drinker” as it makes his flavor “stronger” than it is already.
He said: “I’m not really a great drinker, I don’t really do very well with it. I become very depressed or too much. I acknowledge I can already be a strong flavor, and drinking makes it a bit too strong.”
The 43-year-old musician – who has Apple, 16, and Moses, 14, with his ex-wife and ‘Goop’ founder Gwyneth Paltrow – revealed his parents thought it was a “joke” when he told them he wanted to turn to music.
Speaking to BBC Radio 2’s Jo Whiley, he added: “Until Radiohead, I thought, there’s no way anybody like me – ’cause I’d been obsessed with songs and music … since I was 12 or 13 but I didn’t think I could ever do anything with it so neither did anyone around us. You know I may as well have said, ‘I’m gonna, you know, open a casino on Jupiter’ – that would be about as realistic. So I think when I said to my dad and my mum, ‘You know, I think I’d like to be in a band’, they were like ‘OK,’ thinking it was some joke. And I remember playing something to my mum once and she said ‘Is this you?’ in a really sweet way, like ‘oh, ok, this is really all right’. So there were all really great about it … My parents, they’re all from farming families, so it just was completely alien to anything we’d ever experienced and it was for us too for a few years.”
Coldplay lead Chris Martin reveals drinking takes on a downward spiral towards depression
