Pink recently opened up in an interview with “60 Minutes” about how she nearly died from a drug overdose as a teenager. “I grew up in a house where every day my parents were screaming at each other, throwing things. They hated each other,” Pink told Cecilia Vega. She described herself at the time saying, “I was a punk. I had a mouth. I had a chip on my shoulder.” She revealed that she began using and selling drugs, eventually getting kicked out of her house and dropping out of high school. “I was off the rails,” she said. Pink shared details of the day saying the overdose took place on Thanksgiving day in 1995.  “I was at a rave and I overdosed,” said the singer. She revealed that she had taken many different hard drugs that day including “ecstasy, angel dust, crystal – all kinds of things. Then I was out. Done. Too much.” She explained that her near-death experience was a turning point in her life. She stopped using drugs and just weeks later she landed her first record deal with her R&B girl group, Choice.

Pink has been vocal about her past drug use, speaking about it in an interview with Shape Magazine in 2021 were she revealed that she wasn’t hospitalized from her overdose, but it served as the wake-up call she needed to turn her life around. “I remember getting up off the floor in the morning – and that was the last time I ever touched a drug again,” she said at the time. “It was also the day a DJ offered to let me sing on hip-hop night. His only caveat was that I couldn’t do drugs, so I didn’t,” Pink added. “That’s the thing with me – once I make up my mind, I’m done.”

After her first record deal, Pink’s success skyrocketed making her a household name. She said in her interview with “60 Minutes” that she plans to continue her career until she no longer can. “I keep demanding more and more and more from myself physically, emotionally, spiritually, vocally. I want to raise the bar all the time,” Pink said. “When they say a woman has to slow down, become smaller, take up less space, calm down – no. Absolutely not. Why can’t we ride it till the wheels fall off? “That’s what I plan on doing.”