George Michael has said he deserved to be jailed for crashing his Range Rover while high on cannabis, describing the punishment as karma.
The singer said he was ashamed to have broken the law repeatedly, adding that he was now in therapy for his drug abuse issues. He served a month of an eight-week prison sentence and was banned from driving for five years.
In a radio interview, he said: "By the time I went to court, I knew this wasn't going to happen again. I knew I was going to lose my licence.
"I was assured I wasn't going to prison but I thought I was and, like I said, it was much easier to take because I felt it was deserved.
"This was a hugely shameful thing to have done repeatedly so karmically I felt like I had a bill to pay. I went to prison, I paid my bill."
