Corgan’s father reflects: “I’ve blown it a few times.” 3:57 pm // Sunday, March 7, 2010
Posted by jjb in billy corgan, billy corgan sr., courtney love, interview, magazines.trackback
After briefly outlining Billy Corgan’s rough childhood in a new profile, Rolling Stone associate editor Brian Hiatt noted the 2008 arrest of William Corgan Sr., using it as a stepping-off point to consider Corgan’s dealings with his father and others who have used drugs. Here is an excerpt:
On January 1st, 2008, police in Tampa, Florida, found his 60-year-old father unconscious in his car, a heroin needle in his left forearm. Not for the first time, Billy stepped in to help his dad, bailing him out of jail and paying for rehab. “Billy saved my life so many times,” says Corgan Sr. “I’ve been given more than my fair share of chances to be a human, and I’ve blown it a few times. I grew up in a house of no love or emotion – it kind of sticks with you. You end up passing it on to your kids, and we’re hoping that we maybe broke the chain.”
Corgan has spent enough time in therapy to know it’s no accident he created a new dysfunctional family in the Pumpkins. He surrounded himself with addicts, from Wretzky and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin to former lover and collaborator Courtney Love. He’s tried to sever every one of those relationships. “If I love somebody, I’ll look the other way,” says Corgan, “and stand there and walk them through their addiction. Maybe because of my father I learned how to do this at a young age.”
He worked with Love on song for her new album, but he wants nothing to do with her now – and if she releases the songs, as it appears she will, “it would be a real big problem, because I haven’t given my permission,” Corgan says. “I have no interest in supporting her in any way, shape or form. You can’t throw enough things down the abyss with a person like that.”
i’m commenting on this so billy’s dad doesn’t swing by and see no one caring about his drug addictions/battles and relapse.
i’m down with you big bill KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!
We are all imperfect and cant help but sin. I believe that as long as your repentance is honest, and you try to fix it you can always be forgiven.
Almost every family has a black sheep. I have to feel for Billy on this one. It has to be tough when the black sheep in your family is your father. No matter what that family member does they are still family. I hope they are able to have a good relationship.
I think it sucks that his dad gets dragged into all this. Whatever the guy has done with his life, it’s not newsworthy–leave the dad out of it.
i say his dad is pretty lucky to have a famous son to save his ass. and he gets previews of tbk songs, not a bad perk.
Corgan’s father reflects: “I’ve done blow a few times.”
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