"After years of berserk drug-guzzling, Johnny Cash cleaned up his act, only to be unseated from 'the wagon' by an ostrich in 1983. Attacked on his game farm by the bird, Cash was hospitalized with five broken ribs [and a gash in his stomach]. While recovering, Cash stole cards of Valium and stashed them under his bandages, where they leaked directly into his wounds. Hospital staff were at a loss to explain the singer's comatose appearance until he came to long enough to point to his bandages and avert a near-fatal overdose."
Sources
Blender, December 2001/January 2002
