Matt Healy, the lead singer of Manchester rock band The 1975, has revealed that he beat drug addiction by going to rehab in Barbados and working with horses.

The band have just released their new single Give Yourself A Try, but Healy, 29, admitted that he "wasn’t in a good place" when the band was promoting their last album, I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It.

When asked by DIY magazine if he "[got] addicted to drugs" as per the lyrics of his new song, he replied: “Yeah! Oh yeah! Full on!”

Healy said he went to a rehab centre in the Caribbean after becoming "chemically dependent on a substance" due to the pressures of touring: "I went and worked with horses for seven weeks. I didn’t get dragged away to rehab, I was f------ exhausted and at the [risk] of being another statistic in that prescription drug opioid crisis that hit America, because that’s the way I dealt with things on tour.

"I loved going out on stage and talking to 12,000 people. I didn’t like going back to my hotel room and sitting on my own for another three hours and then being expected to go to bed when I wanted to, I don’t know, change culture or something ridiculously grandiose."