In his posthumous autobiography, Tom Parker revealed how his hashish use spiralled uncontrolled to the purpose the place he stole from his dad and mom.
The Needed star tragically died on the age of 33 in March, virtually two years after being identified with stage-four incurable glioblastoma multiforme mind tumour in summer season 2020.
Written earlier than his loss of life Tom's autobiography, Hope, he detailed the problems in his previous with the drug however revealed that it helped him with ache aid in his closing moments.
In an excerpt from the e-book, revealed in The Solar he detailed his struggles with the drug: "I solely ended up lasting six months doing geography at Manchester Met earlier than I f***ed it off.
"After I used to be kicked out of uni, my weed behavior began to turn into a drawback.
"My dad and mom, Noreen and Nigel, are fairly liberal-minded, however they couldn’t settle for the person who I used to be turning into and we had plenty of arguments about my hashish use.
"Over the area of a few years I’d gone from casually smoking with my mates to full-on habit.
"We'd do just about something to get excessive.
"I’m ashamed to say that ultimately prolonged to taking stuff from my dad and mom’ home and pawning it at Money Converters — movies, jewelry, something that might get me a number of quid.
"That’s how a lot I’d misplaced management of who I used to be.
"The ultimate straw got here when someone posted a birthday card by the door for Mum. I opened it and stole the crisp £10 notes that had been folded inside.
"My dad and mom needed to take excessive measures within the hope that I'd study to know the damaging path that I used to be on — they kicked me out of our household house.
"I ended up on a settee in my mate Wayne’s home across the nook for the subsequent few months. I continued this downward spiral — extra weed, extra drink — and I wouldn’t see my dad and mom, regardless that they have been solely a few streets away."
Though the drug virtually ruined his life as a teenager, Tom turned again to hashish on the finish of his life to assist handle the ache.
He mentioned: "I used to be provided radiotherapy and chemotherapy by the NHS, however that was that.
"I’m a really inquisitive individual by nature, so, not content material with the choices that I’d been offered with, I accessed additional therapies, together with new experimental medicine and holistic therapies which have every performed an vital half in my journey.
"For Kelsey and me, it felt pure to discover various remedy.
"Regardless of all the difficulty that it brought on earlier in my life, I actually do credit score hashish for that.
"Virtually all of the medical doctors I’ve spoken to on this journey talked about that it might assist.
"It’s a method to get by the ache, significantly early on.
"I’ve had different medical doctors who've frowned at my use of hashish when it was the one factor giving me any correct ache aid, as if it’s any worse than the heavy-duty medicine that they have been prescribing me.
"It’s very irritating if you discover a remedy that you just wish to try to your oncologist is closed off to it — a drug is just pretty much as good because the physician is with that drug.
"I began to take a number of drops of hashish oil each night very shortly after my analysis."
Hope: My Inspirational Life, by Tom Parker, revealed on Could 26 by Blink Publishing.
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