Belinda Carlisle quit drugs when she realised it was "only a matter of time" before they killed her The 62-year-old singer stopped taking cocaine when her band the Go-Gos split up in 1985, but she turned back to the habit in the early 1990s and things eventually came to a head in 2005 1 July 2021 She said: âI was in a really bad place from age 40 to 47... âIt was a horrible cycle. I was just sick of the lies and the drama, and I hated myself." Recalling how she skipped rehearsals for recording her French covers LP 'Voila' in London in 2005 in favour of going on a cocaine binge, she said: âI just knew that it was only a matter of time before I died."