Run-Ins With The Law 'Would Never Have Happened To David Bowie', Says Boy George
Wednesday, 21 December 2011
Written by Elliott Batte
Badly-behaved star Boy George has told Vogue how he doesn’t want to grow-up following his handful of run-ins with the law, and claimed that the controversies that surrounded him would ‘never have happened to David Bowie’.
Boy George has had his share of issues with the police, which have seen him imprisoned and forced to sweep the streets of New York. In 2006, George was sentenced to community service in New York after he falsely reported a house burglary, while in 2009 he was sent to jail for effectively kidnapping a male escort and refusing to let him leave his flat.
“In prison, I was like, 'This is my fault I'm here now.' In New York, when I swept up the streets of Chinatown during my probation, I remember I was saying 'This would never have happened to David Bowie… I always thought I would be reasonable at 40. It took me seven more years, but now I control my life.
“The most important thing to me over the past five years is that I grew up. A confession that I would have never imagined before. The idea was like a capitulation. I hated that. I want to stay immature forever. There is a real power when you grow up and it was like a revelation for me.”
I think it’s fair to say, Bowie would have never have kidnapped a male escort.
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