Bono ended friendship with Michael Hutchence because the late star ‘spiralled down the vortex of drug use’

U2 frontman Bono has shared why he cut ties with the INXS singer

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Bono has revealed that he stopped speaking to tragic INXS singer Michael Hutchence due to his excessive drug use.

In an excerpt from his book Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story, the U2 frontman, 62, writes that he and wife Ali Hewson made the decision to cut ties to close pals Hutchence and his TV presenter partner Paula Yates in the early Nineties over the pair’s substance abuse.