BOYD: 'CLAPTON WAS AN ANIMAL'

Last updated: Thursday, August 16, 2007

BOYD: 'CLAPTON WAS AN ANIMAL'

ERIC CLAPTON turned into 'an animal' and regularly beat his wife PATTIE BOYD after failing to cure his alcohol addiction in rehab.

PATTIE BOYD

Clapton spent six weeks in a Minnesota rehab clinic in 1982, but the stint failed to cure his reliance on alcohol.

In a tell all autobiography, Boyd - who divorced the singer in 1989 after nine years of marriage - claims Clapton vented his frustrations out on her and feared she would be killed.

She says, "One day I saw a photograph my sister had taken of me. I didn't recognise myself. My face was puffy.

"There were times when he was more like an animal than the loving husband I'd known. I was frightened. I thought he'd end up killing one of us.

"It was as though he had lost his personality. He was also angry - angry he couldn't do the one thing he enjoyed in life: have a drink."

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Source: WENN

| Thursday, August 16, 2007

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