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Fergie Opens Up About Her Crystal Meth Addiction

"I was hallucinating on a daily basis"

Fergie has opened up about further about her early 2000s drug addiciton, saying at her lowest point she was โ€œhallucinating on a daily basis.โ€

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The former Black Eyed Peas member says she โ€œwas [suffering from] chemically induced psychosis and dementiaโ€ while addicted to crystal meth.

โ€œIt took a year after getting off that drug for the chemicals in my brain to settle so that I stopped seeing things. Iโ€™d just be sitting there, seeing a random bee or bunny,โ€ she recalled to iNews on Thursday.

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Fergie in 2007

Fergieโ€™s psychosis led her to believe to CSI was following her, so she ran into a church. โ€œThey tried to kick me out, because I was moving down the aisles in this crazy way, as I thought there was an infrared camera in the church trying to check for my body,โ€ she recalled.

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โ€œI bolted past the altar into a hallway and two people were chasing me. I remember thinking, โ€˜If I walk outside, and the SWAT teamโ€™s out there, I was right all along. But if theyโ€™re not out there, then itโ€™s the drugs making me see things and Iโ€™m going to end up in an institution. And if it really is the drugs, I donโ€™t want to live my life like this any more, anyway.โ€™ I walked out of the church โ€“ obviously, there was no SWAT team. It was just me, in a parking lot. It was a freeing moment,โ€ she said.

The 42-year-old says she thinks she has guardian angels watching over her, saying that itโ€™s incredible sheโ€™s even around to tell the story now. โ€œThe drugs thing, it was a hell of a lot of funโ€ฆuntil it wasnโ€™t. But you know what? I thank the day it happened to me. Because thatโ€™s my strength, my faith, my hope for something better.

Previously, Fergie opened up about her drug addiction to Time, saying it was โ€œthe hardest boyfriend I ever had to break up with.โ€

Fans recently expressed concern regarding the singerโ€™s health after she unexpectedly crashed the stage at the TrevorLIVE Gala, but a representative for the star told Peopleโ€œSheโ€™s happy and healthy.โ€

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