John Lydon, the former Sex Pistol, has revealed that Rolling Stone, Mick Jagger, paid bassist Sid Vicious' legal fees in the Nancy Spungon murder trial.

Speaking to The Daily Record, Lydon said:

"Nancy Spungen was a hideous, awful person who killed herself because of the lifestyle and led to the destruction and subsequent death of Sid and the whole fiasco.

"I tried to help Sid through all of that and feel a certain responsibility because I brought him into the Pistols thinking he could handle the pressure. He couldn’t.

"The reason people take heroin is because they can’t handle pressure. Poor old Sid. Her death is all entangled in mystery. It’s no real mystery, though. If you are going to get yourself involved in drugs and narcotics in that way accidents are going to happen. Sid was a lost case."

"The only good news is that I heard Mick Jagger got in there and brought lawyers into it on Sid’s behalf because I don’t think Malcolm (McLaren) lifted a finger. He just didn’t know what to do. For that, I have a good liking of Mick Jagger. There was activity behind the scenes from Mick Jagger so I applaud him. He never used it to advance himself publicity-wise."

The '70's punk band, Sex Pistols, were managed by the late Malcolm Maclaren. Lydon blames Vicious' heroin habit on the 'shenanigans' of Malcolm McLaren.

Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen were lovers when Spungen was found dead in Manhattan's Chelsea Hotel with a stab wound to her chest. Vicious was charged with her murder, and died four months later from a heroin overdose in 1979.

Half-blind Lydon who suffered from meningitis as a child now lives in L.A. and London, and prefers the West Coast climate to the UK, he said:

"It never gets to be freezing so you don’t need to bother with the flus or viruses or bronchitis I would get every year in England.”

Lydon used to split his time up between London and L.A. In 2011 he lost the kitchen in his London home to a fire caused by a faulty tumble-dryer. The house was uninsured and no-one was hurt.

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