Keith Richards ‘Jokes’ About Snorting Father’s Ashes

Posted on April 4, 2007

Keith Richards was only kidding when he told a London gossip mag that he snorted his dad’s ashes, MTV’s Kurt Loder reports.
Maybe you saw that Keith Richards item that started popping up all over the place on Tuesday (April 3) — the one about how he’d admitted to snorting the ashes of his late father after his body had been cremated? Great story, right? And yet, like so much in the world of celebrity journalism, totally untrue.
In case you missed it, this little yarn first appeared in the pages of London’s notoriously unreliable New Musical Express. The magazine quoted the Rolling Stones guitarist as saying, “The strangest thing I’ve tried to snort? My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow. My dad wouldn’t have cared. … It went down pretty well, and I’m still alive.”
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