Back in 2005, CBS held a reality show competition titled Rock Star: INXS. They had 15 contestants compete to become the new lead singer of the Aussie rock band INXS.
Canadian rocker Jason Dean Bennison, better known as J.D. Fortune, ended up winning the competition.
Well, the singer is now out of the band and….homeless!!!!!
Fortune spoke with Entertainment Tonight Canada yesterday about his current situation. He tells the TV show that he is back in Canada now and living out of his truck after being kicked out of INXS more than a year ago once they finished their international tour.
He said, “I was in an airport in Hong Kong and literally got handshakes of `thank you very much.’ I found myself really alone because I had travelled with these guys for 23 months. Some of the audiences we played for were upwards of 80,000 people.”
Part of his downward spiral seems to be linked to his “heavy use of cocaine” while he was in the band. He says, “It got as bad as it needed to be for me to numb out the fact that this was going to come to a screeching halt.”
So the once loser turned rock band lead singer and back to current loser now claims to be off the drugs and working hard on releasing his new solo album, The Death of a Motivational Speaker, which should be released this year.
Wonder what happened to the money he made while touring? Did it all go to the drugs?
Crack is whack y’all!
[Photo via Getty Images.]
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