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Robin Thicke has admitted that he was ‘high or drunk’ during every interview he gave in 2013 as part of a court case dealing with plagiarism of his hit song “Blurred Lines”.
“I didn’t do a single interview last year without being high on both [alcohol and Vicodin],” Thicke admitted during a deposition video filmed in 2014.
The deposition was for a lawsuit accusing him, Pharrell Williams and T.I. of ripping off the hit song Blurred Lines from Marvin Gaye’s 1977 hit, Got To Give It Up.
“With all due respect, I was high and drunk every time I did an interview last year.”
The 38-year-old father also admitted he did not consider himself to be an honest person, adding:
“When I give interviews, I tell whatever I want to say to help sell records.”
Robin Thicke split from his wife, Mission Impossible actress, Paula Patton in February 2014. The pair was married for nine years, together for 21 years and have a five-year-old son, Julian.
Thicke desperately tried to rekindle his romance with 39-year-old Patton, naming his most recent album Paula and dedicating his song Forever Love to her at the 2014 BET Awards.
His overtures did not work and he later admitted that he was embarrassed by his actions but said his humiliation prompted him to get clean.
“I came home, and my best friend of 20 years, Craig Crawford, said, ‘I saw your BET performance,'” he told New York Times in July. “And I said: ‘Oh yeah! What did you think?’ You know — excited. And he goes: ‘I gotta be honest with you, buddy. You’re kind of playing yourself. You look like a sucker.’ And it hit me that I’d lost my perspective.”
“What I thought was romantic was just embarrassing,” he added. “And he said, ‘You should just go away for a while.’ So I shut everything down. I took some time off to be with my son, and to be with my family and close friends. And the more time I took off, the more everything became clear.”
Robin Thicke has been dating 20-year-old model April Love Geary since November last year.
He and Williams lost the Blurred Lines lawsuit – Gaye’s family was awarded $US5.4 million – but Thicke says he is planning an appeal.
“I was surprised. Very surprised,” he said of the verdict. “Obviously, that’s why we’re appealing. I know the difference between inspiration and theft. I’m constantly inspired, but I would never steal. And neither would Pharrell.”
Agencies/Canadajournal
