Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis initially regretted his memoir Scar Tissue because of the pain his revelations had on friends and family.
The 53-year-old singer says his 2004 brutally honest autobiography, in which he opens up about his relationship with drugs, sex and his troubled childhood, caused him to fall out with friends and family.
“I did regret the book for a while as there was some pain caused," he tells The Sun newspaper. "But then, I started seeing the long term positive reverberating. People were reading it in hospitals, in prisons and schools and it was having a positive effect.
“I realised that the whole point of writing that book wasn’t for me, but to show that somebody can go all the way down and come all the way back and have a productive, successful happy interesting life.
“And so whatever shame, pain or difficulty or discomfort I went through, then it was worth it because I get so many people coming up to me saying their kids had read it and got their act together because of it.”
Kiedis recently revealed that he saved a baby’s life while he and his band were filming a segment of Carpool Karaoke with Late Late Show host James Corden.
As Kiedis explained, Corden and the group decided to have some Mexican food but things took an unexpected turn.
“A woman came out of her house holding a child, saying, ‘My baby, my baby, my baby can’t breathe!'” the singer recalled.
“We all ran across the street. The lady thrust the baby into my arms. The baby was not breathing,” the 53-year-old singer continued. “I thought, ‘I’m going to try and do a little baby CPR real quick to see if I can get some air into this kid.”
The singer said that he was able to revive the infant by “rubbing the belly.”
"I tried to open the mouth. [It was] shut, “locked shut. So I started rubbing the belly, bubbles started coming out of the mouth, the eyes rolled back into place.
"The ambulance showed up and I handed the baby over who was breathing and fine,” Kiedis said. “And we went back to shooting Carpool Karaoke.”
