Before Fergie became a chart-topping sensation with ditties about her camel-like backside and drawbridge legs, the singer was a hardcore meth-head. She recently spoke to Time about the struggle to break free from her addiction—something she luckily managed to do before losing any teeth and being forced to sing about "my stumps, my stumps, my stumps"—and pinpoints the roots of her addiction to that old Hollywood standby, former childhood stardom:

"It was the hardest boyfriend I ever had to break up with," Stacey "Fergie" Ferguson told Time magazine in an interview for the issue that hits newsstands Monday.

"It's the drug that's addicting," said Fergie, who has released her first solo album, "The Dutchess." "But it's why you start doing it in the first place that's interesting. A lot of it was being a child actor; I learned to suppress feelings."

While blaming her troubles on early career successes may come off as a predictable deflection tactic, revisiting the title sequence of her 1980s Disney Channel series, Kids Incorporated, does tend to support her claims: Packed with hideous period fashions and Alice In Wonderland-inspired choreography, it's a cracked-out fever dream that would send anyone involved in its execution scurrying for the nearest glass pipe just to keep from losing their minds.