SLIPKNOT Frontman Credits Wife For Helping Him Kick The Bottle

ContactMusic.com is reporting that SLIPKNOT frontman Corey Taylor credits his wife Scarlett for making him realise he had to stop drinking.

Taylor, who was a cocaine addict and homeless at the age of 15, only decided to quit alcohol when his spouse made him take a look at himself in the mirror. He says, "I was an alcoholic. It was really bad by the time we were recording 'Subliminal Verses'. I was out of control, hiding Jack Daniel's (whiskey) bottles under my pillow. I would drink from the moment I got up until the moment I passed out, wherever that was. I didn't like it and my wife didn't like it, so she basically grabbed me by the hair and said, 'Look at yourself!' I was swollen and f**ked up and I didn't realize it. The last night I drank, all I remember is we were at the Viper Room. I was spitting vomit at people walking down Sunset (Boulevard, Los Angeles). I almost got my a*s kicked and wife just left, like, 'F**k you! I can't take this.'"

Corey says that he cannot bear to remember life as an alcoholic, because is so appalled by his irresponsible behavior towards his baby son. The 32-year-old SLIPKNOT singer, whose life has been blighted by drug and alcohol abuse, is most ashamed of the time he babysat his child Griffin. He says, "I used to be a really fun drunk, but there was a point where it stopped being fun and became a need. The first year of my son's life I was f**king unavailable because I was drunk the whole time. I've never admitted this to anybody, but one night my wife went to see MUDVAYNE and I got so ripped that I was sitting at home taking care of my son while I was wasted and it didn't bother me at all. That's f**ked up."