FORMER hellraiser John Lydon fears demons are trying to kill him — including Count Dracula.
The 67-year-old Sex Pistols icon was hospitalised for a year with spinal meningitis aged seven.
He revealed he had bad hallucinations which continue to this day, with the worst featuring a tall vampire-like figure.
The tormented Pretty Vacant singer said: “I’d see dragons, demons, priests, things trying to kill me. It was terrifying and I still have some of those visions today, particularly this very tall black priest, almost like Dracula.
Asked about his worst childhood memory, he said: “My meningitis. The hallucinations from that were terrible.
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“Every now and again, that character will pop up in the corner of a room. I’ll catch them with my eye, and they don’t mean me very well.”
The Never Mind the B*llocks star added: “They want to steal me. Abduct me. To take something from me that isn’t theirs.”
At the start of the year, The Sun reported on how John was to battle with pop band Wild Youth to represent Ireland at Eurovision.
The rock star, who fronted the iconic UK punk band as Johnny Rotten in the 1970s, was one of the acts performing in a Eurovision Eurosong Late Late Special on February 3.
Rumours had been circulating after the website for the star’s current band PiL (Public Image Limited) warned fans to “stay tuned for a big announcement on Monday”.
PiL’s song Hawaii was recorded as a “love letter” to John's wife of nearly five decades, Nora, who had Alzheimer’s.