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Merlin Alderslade

Bring Me The Horizon's Oli Sykes reveals that he "fell back into drugs" during the pandemic: "I was just so bored"

Oli Sykes live on stage.

Bring Me The Horizon frontman Oli Sykes has opened up on some of the difficulties he faced during the global pandemic, revealing that he returned to using drugs as a means to cope with some of his issues. Speaking to Loudwire, the singer points to his discomfort at suddenly having so little to do as a key factor in him returning to bad habits.

"I fell back into drugs," he says. "When it was the pandemic and stuff. And I think part of it was just because I was just so used to being burnt out, that when the pandemic hit, and I didn't have as much to do, I was just so bored and not used to just being a real person that I just fell back into drugs."

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