Fergie: I kicked the habit

Fergie: I kicked the habit
NEW YORK -- Fergie, the female voice of the Black Eyed Peas, says she had to dig deep into herself to kick her crystal meth addiction. "It was the hardest boyfriend I ever had to break up with," Stacey "Fergie" Ferguson told Time magazine in an interview for the issue that hits newsstands today. "It's the drug that's addicting," said Fergie, who has released her first solo album, "The Dutchess." "But it's why you start doing it in the first place that's interesting. A lot of it was being a child actor; I learned to suppress feelings." When asked what she does now with those feelings, she said, "I have an hour and a half of performing every night and improvising." Asked if she ever met Sarah Ferguson, the duchess of York, she said, "We're talking about doing some charity work together, building schools."
Today's birthdays
Actress Betsy Drake is 83. Actor Earl Holliman is 78. Movie director Brian De Palma is 66. Rock musician Mickey Hart (The Dead) is 63. Rock singer-musician Tommy Shaw (Styx) is 53. Actor Reed Birney is 52. Musician Jon Moss (Culture Club) is 49. Actor Scott Patterson is 48. Rock musician Mick Talbot (The Style Council) is 48. Actress Roxann Dawson is 48. Actress Kristy McNichol is 44. Singer Harry Connick Jr. is 39. Rock musician Bart Van Der Zeeluw is 38. Actress Laura Wright is 36. Rock musician Jeremy Popoff (Lit) is 35. Singer Brad Fischetti (LFO) is 31. Rapper Mr. Black is 29. Rock musician Jon Buckland (Coldplay) is 29. Rapper Ludacris is 29. Actor Ryan Slattery is 28. Actor Tyler Hoechlin is 19.