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In interviews in 2005, Reznor disclosed that he had been hospitalized for a heroin overdose in London around the time this concert was supposed to take place. Reznor confirmed his overdose on China white heroin at this London date in an interview with the Guardian in 2013. [https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/aug/08/the-nine-lives-of-trent-reznor] So the official story of Dillon having a stomach flu was a cover-up to conceal Reznor's overdose.
According to reports and interviews, during an alcohol-induced stupor, Reznor consumed a massive amount of what he thought was cocaine. When someone on the tour crew went to his hotel room he was unresponsive. Paramedics were called and ushered in through the back of the hotel, and Reznor was loaded onto a stretcher and brought out through the hotel laundry room to the ambulance waiting in the back of the building. This was done to protect his privacy and to prevent a media feeding frenzy. Reznor awoke in the hospital emergency room with a tube going down his throat and no memory of how he got there. He was informed of what had happened and was shocked: he had never used heroin before. [http://www.nin-pages.de/2005_NME_April_english.htm] This incident and subsequent concert cancellation served as a much-needed wake-up call to Reznor to come to terms with his drug and alcohol addictions.
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