"I forgot that I even said that!" Lissie laughs when Hot Press mentions a recent Q&A where she answered ‘what was the worst piece of advice you were ever given?’ by recalling the time she accidentally smoked crystal meth.
Feels like we have to expand on that...
“I think I was delirious and I thought it was funny," the brilliantly blonde US star says. "Anyway... when I was between 15 and 25 – not even 25 – I smoked weed. Not all the time but, y’know, I maybe would now, if it was around. It’s not my thing. Red wine and tequila is my thing now. I moved to LA and didn’t know anyone there. I was just trying to make friends and these people I made friends with? I didn’t realise, but they were all meth heads! And I’m from Illinois. The middle of the country and sheltered. I wasn’t exposed to anything like that.”
Describing the experience, Lissie continues:
“So I didn’t know that it was smoked out of a glass pipe. I didn’t know anything about it, I thought that it was weed. I went to have some and right as I was doing it I realised that there was no weed in it. I was like, ‘what is this?’. Then I was like, ‘okay I’ll try it’. I hated it. It was really unpleasant.”
Putting youthful mistakes behind her, today Lissie is striding purposefully down the path to making good on the hype that came with her 2010 debut Catching A Tiger.
For her thoughts on new album Back To Forever, the nostalgia that informed it, and where she's at right now, pick up the new issue of Hot Press (Lily Allen cover), currently on sale.