Rick Springfield describes suicide attempt

Rick Springfield has revealed that he tried to kill himself when he was a teenager.

In his new autobiography Late, Late at Night, the 'Jesse's Girl' hitmaker details a failed suicide attempt.

The '80s popstar wrote that he tried to hang himself at the age of 17 because he felt he was "as ugly as the ass end of a female baboon at mating season".

Springfield claims that he hung for about 20 seconds from a ceiling beam, but the noose undid itself.

"From this point on, music will become my salvation and save me from most serious self-inflicted harm," he wrote.

The book is out now from Simon & Schuster.