Nam Tae-hyun, first confession of 'method drug use charge', "The remaining thing is 500 million in debt and overdue card payment"

Singer Nam Tae-hyun confesses his drug addiction for the first time.

In KBS1's 'Tracking 60 Minutes', which airs on the 14th, the story is decorated with the theme of 'Telegram's drugstore targets teenagers'.

On this day's broadcast, Nam Tae-hyun confesses his drug addiction for the first time. He debuted as a member of the group WINNER in 2014. While working as a solo artist after leaving the group, he was at the center of controversy when he was accused of using methamphetamine in August of last year.

Nam Tae-hyun, who was sent to the prosecution along with Seo Min-jae, a broadcaster who appeared in 'Heart Signal 3', is currently under investigation without detention for drug use. '60 Minutes of Tracking' met Nam Tae-hyun, who is undergoing treatment at Incheon Dark, a drug addiction treatment and rehabilitation center. This is the first time Nam Tae-hyun has confessed his feelings about drug addiction.

Nam Tae-hyun, who responded to the interview with difficulty, confessed the story of becoming addicted to drugs. While living in the entertainment industry, he encountered narcotic drugs, such as diet pills, and took sleeping pills for insomnia. A drug prescribed by a psychiatrist. But medical substance abuse has opened the pathway to drugs. This has a lot of implications for the phenomenon that teenagers are now abusing ADHD drugs known as diet pills and drugs to study well.

Nam Tae-hyun confessed to the production team the hardships of life caused by drug use. After taking drugs, what was left was 500 million in debt and overdue credit card payments. He said that he had to give up his house as well as his parents' house. Nam Tae-hyun will soon be working part-time at a restaurant to pay off his debt. I sold everything I owned except for one guitar I loved. Even during the interview, text messages urging overdue payments keep coming. Drugs dragged him, who was the idol of teenagers, to the bottom in an instant.

As the body and mind were destroyed by drugs, people left one by one. Around the time I thought, 'I don't have the confidence to live anymore', I knocked on the door of the rehabilitation center with a sense of desperation. Nam Tae-hyun said that he had something he wanted to say to teenagers, and said, "I hope (teenagers) don't even have an interest in drugs. Life itself is an act that collapses terribly," he said with difficulty.

Reporter Kang Min-kyung, Ten Asia kkk39@tenasia.co.kr