Last September, Billie Joe Armstrong made headlines when, during his band Green Day's performance at the I Heart Radio Music Festival in Las Vegas, the rocker unleashed a profanity-laced tirade that took aim at everyone from the concert's promoter, Clear Channel, to Justin Bieber. The meltdown forced Armstrong to enter an outpatient rehab program for a month and in the latest issue of Rolling Stone, the frontman, who turned 41 this month, reveals his struggle to get sober. "I'm a blackout drinker," he reveals. "That's basically what happened [that night]." Leading up to that infamous performance, Armstrong was struggling with a dependence...
- 2/28/2013
- by Kevin O'Donnell
- PEOPLE.com
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