Anthony Kiedis has spoken about the time he was kicked out of Red Hot Chili Peppers when his addiction to heroin was "starting to hurt the collective."
The vocalist shares his memories of the period in the new Netflix documentary, The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers" Our Brother Hillel, which focuses on the life and legacy of late Chili Peppers guitarist Hillel Slovak, who passed away in 1988, aged 26.
Kiedis, Flea and Slovak became inseparable best friends in their mid-teens, while pupils at Fairfax High School in Los Angeles, bonding over music, comedy, girls, and drugs. However, by the time the trio - and fellow Fairfax High alumni Jack Irons - began demoing the third Red Hot Chili Peppers album, The Uplift Mofo Party Plan, it was obvious to all that that Kiedis and Slovak's drug use was becoming problematic.
