Musician discusses his career in new autobiography.
Matt Sorum , former drummer for Guns N' Roses and Velvet Revolver , dropped a bombshell in a recent interview on the podcast 2 Hours with Matt Pinfield . The musician revealed that he was a cocaine trafficker before becoming a musician, and that he crossed US borders with bags of drugs strapped to his waist.
Now is the perfect time for Sorum to make confessions about the past, as he is working on an autobiography. Having written an estimated “thousand pages,” he promises great things for the book, calling it “the most venomous of the venomous Guns N' Roses books.”
But it seems that the period before the band offers the most interesting content for the book. “Before I was in a rock band, I was a drug dealer. I used to smuggle cocaine across borders. I would get on planes with two kilos strapped to my waist ,” he recalls. “Most of the deliveries were in Hawaii, because I had a big connection there. I think at least two chapters of the book will talk about that.”
He continued the story, emphasizing that he narrowly escaped arrest. “I remember the last time I smuggled two kilos to Hawaii, I thought I was being followed. And I told my boss that. I said I couldn’t do that anymore. He thought I was just high, but I wasn’t. And that’s when I decided to go back to Los Angeles. The guy who replaced me got arrested. 20 years in a federal penitentiary for international drug trafficking. It could have been me.”
