Rick Springfield and his personal life cannot be kept out of the spotlight. The rock star best known known for the 1981 hit "Jessie's Girl" was a sex addict who was so depressed he tried to commit suicide. And now he's opening up on national television on ABC's Good Morning America.
Springfield, 61, made an appearance on the network's show to promote his new book "Late, Late at Night," but that's not the only thing the interviewers were interested in.
According to OnTheRedCarpet.com, Springfield revealed that sex "calmed a lot of things in [him]," adding that "it's something [he] did because it made [him] feel better about [him]self."
"If this person is willing to have sex with me, then she must think I'm okay," Springfrield said. "It became, like any drug, a habit. Once I took enough time off to be away from it and got out of the habit of it, it was much easier not to do it."
Springfield tried to commit suicide at the age of 17, OnTheRedCarpet.com reported. After undergoing therapy and meditation in an attempt to get his life back together, Springfrield is now coming out with a book that he hopes will read like a love story, addressing his relationship with wife Linda Blair and his suicide attempt.
"From this point on," Springfrield writes, according to ContactMusic.com, "music will become my salvation and save me from most serios self-inflicted harm."
