Cole recalls horror of heroin youth

Cheryl Cole has told how she lost friends to heroin when she was younger, also hitting out at Pete Doherty.

The Girls Aloud star said she hated the drug and condemned the singer who is known for his drug use.

“That junkie idiot," she declared. "The problem I have with him is that I’ve lost friends to heroin and I just don’t get the idea of glorifying it.

“I think it’s disgusting," the singer told NME. "There are enough drug problems going on without him being in the public eye for it and sticking needles in his arm in the press. If he kicks his habit, he’ll be a lot more respected.”

Cole grew up in the poor Byker area of Newcastle and her former boyfriend Jason Mack claims she saved his life by getting him off cocaine.

“Some days I’d blow £200 on the stuff and I’d be drinking bottles of Bud from 8am until I crashed out at God knows when," he told the Daily Star. "But she’d sit with me for hours to talk me out of going out and getting drugs."