Jimmy Buffett tells his side of drug fine story
Jimmy Buffett has updated his web site with his version of what happened at the Toulon airport last week, when French customs officers searched his bags and detained him for what they said were ecstasy pills. While Buffett was never arrested, he did pay a fine of 300 euros (about $380), and proceeded as planned with his vacation in St Tropez.
Buffett has now posted on margaritaville.com his side of the story, in which he says:
"I don't know about you, but at a few months away from turning sixty, I carry a few prescriptions, including a B vitamin supplement, called Foltx....
"Well, that's the one that deflated the party balloon for when they examined them you could see a heart on the pill. 'Ecstasy,' they said. I have never taken it and couldn't tell you the difference between a hit of ecstasy and Excedrin PM. My vices these days consist of boat drinks, beer, wine and the occasional hot fudge sundae. I hadn't even opened the bottle, because my secretary had made a mistake and had sent the wrong prescription. I don't use Foltx any more.
"I knew Foltx was a vitamin supplement not a love drug. I paid the fine, gathered my bags and my friends and as soon as they opened that door, I walked, rather rapidly towards my plane and flew out.
"In Toulon, the stern faced authorities couldn't take the truth as the simple answer to a few simple questions, trying to turn vitamins into ecstasy. In these days and times, the truth sadly gets lost in the gossip at an alarming rate."
He went on to say that he chalked it up to "something that will happen if you have an adventurous soul and live a nomad life."
Buffett's latest album, Take The Weather With You, was released Tuesday (October 10th.)
Jimmy Buffett will appear on the Today Show on NBC this Thursday (October 12th), and will kick off a brief fall tour on October 19th at the Santa Barbara Bowl in Santa Barbara, California.
Buffett has now posted on margaritaville.com his side of the story, in which he says:
"I don't know about you, but at a few months away from turning sixty, I carry a few prescriptions, including a B vitamin supplement, called Foltx....
"Well, that's the one that deflated the party balloon for when they examined them you could see a heart on the pill. 'Ecstasy,' they said. I have never taken it and couldn't tell you the difference between a hit of ecstasy and Excedrin PM. My vices these days consist of boat drinks, beer, wine and the occasional hot fudge sundae. I hadn't even opened the bottle, because my secretary had made a mistake and had sent the wrong prescription. I don't use Foltx any more.
"I knew Foltx was a vitamin supplement not a love drug. I paid the fine, gathered my bags and my friends and as soon as they opened that door, I walked, rather rapidly towards my plane and flew out.
"In Toulon, the stern faced authorities couldn't take the truth as the simple answer to a few simple questions, trying to turn vitamins into ecstasy. In these days and times, the truth sadly gets lost in the gossip at an alarming rate."
He went on to say that he chalked it up to "something that will happen if you have an adventurous soul and live a nomad life."
Buffett's latest album, Take The Weather With You, was released Tuesday (October 10th.)
Jimmy Buffett will appear on the Today Show on NBC this Thursday (October 12th), and will kick off a brief fall tour on October 19th at the Santa Barbara Bowl in Santa Barbara, California.
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