Yeah, sometimes deliberately in real life and sometimes not. Some would say you might have embarrassed your parents in public. I remember my mom going, “Oh, no, oh, no,” and I thought my dad was killing her. It’s something that should be kept private, that side of it, because a child’s mind can’t cope with what that is. I remember catching my mom and dad having sex and it ruined me for about a year.

He’d do it for a laugh, but it used to really, really annoy and upset me. I refused to go on holiday with my parents from a very early age, you know 13 or 14, because I used to be terrifically embarrassed towards my dad’s proclivity towards taking his clothes off and running around naked. Was there something special in your childhood that caused you to act out like that? You are known for your terrible behavior. Getting to sleep at night it’s always there: “What will that be like if that ever happens again.” That never goes away, that feeling. I didn’t know my parents, didn’t know my own name, and I never want to wake up and feel that pain ever again. I thought, “Fuck that, I’m not going back and having all that operation on my gum ever again.”įear? Well I had meningitis that put me in a coma for three months and when I came out of that I had no memory of anything. Within a week of having all these put it, they’re all false, I broke this on a cherry stone.

So I had to do something really serious, and it cost me a lot of money. I found out that a great deal of the amount of time I spent ill was because of my teeth. I paid a lot of money to have my teeth fixed because they were making me seriously ill. I thought that if I replaced them I’d never have to use a toothbrush ever again! (Laughs) Rotten, how often do you brush your teeth?

Rotten by John Lydon