Overview
- Ryder says he smoked up to 50 rocks of crack a day while in Barbados during sessions for the Happy Mondays’ 1992 album.
- He recounts facing a large orangutan on the island and insists the encounter was real despite orangutans not being native there.
- He recalls being held hostage in Amsterdam by an armed robber for “a day or two,” saying he talked his way free.
- He has retold a near-arrest during a 1996 drugs raid, a Brit Awards anecdote that was edited from last month’s broadcast.
- He reports long-term sobriety after quitting around age 40, crediting his wife Joanne and long daily cycling during recovery.