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Perry Farrell says the LA Health Dept “made a public announcement” to find him after rumour he had AIDS
Jane’s Addiction frontman Perry Farrell has claimed that the Los Angeles Health Department publicly sought to investigate him after he was faced with a false rumour that he had contracted AIDS.Farrell, who battled heroin addiction in the early 1990s, says the investigation began when he was performing at Glastonbury in 1993 with Porno for Pyros, the band formed in the wake of Jane’s Addiction’s initial split.“I was dating this girl (who, by the way, Robert Plant ended up dating after me – sloppy seconds from me),” Farrell told NME in a new interview.“She was my drug dealer’s daughter, but she was of age and she was a model. Very white hair, blonde hair, natural.