"Evan Dando rolls up a sleeve and points to a line of small dents running down his forearm, faint scars from decades of heroin abuse. It takes so long to get decent track marks, he says. You do it for years and you think: I can't stop yet. Maybe my skin is particularly tough, but you can barely see it now. What was it all for, eh? He grins and lets out a raspy laugh."
"He is warm, goofily charismatic and completely unfiltered. We meet at lunchtime at his publishers' offices in Clerkenwell, central London, where he wonders if we should move our chat to the pub. In the end, he sends out for two pints of cider, which he then forgets to drink. Often losing his train of thought, he is apt to go off on wild tangents."
"He and his wife Antonia Teixeira, whom he married last year, have flown in from Sao Paulo, Brazil, where they live and where Dando now has three adult stepchildren. I'm trying to be the backbone of this new family. I didn't embrace [family] much in my life, but I'm ready to try. I'm doing pretty good so far. Now 58, he says he is clean, though this turns out to be a loose concept: I'll take acid occasionally, maybe mushrooms and I'll smoke pot."
Evan Dando displays faint forearm scars from decades of heroin use and recounts long-term addiction beginning in adolescence. He achieved fame as frontman of the Lemonheads and gained a reputation as a 1990s alt-rock burn-out, yet he presents as warm, charismatic and unfiltered. He now lives in Sao Paulo with his wife Antonia and three adult stepchildren and is attempting to be a family anchor. He describes himself as clean from heroin for nearly three years, while allowing occasional use of acid, mushrooms and cannabis. A disastrous 2021 gig prompted his decision to stop using heroin.
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