Country music fans praying for legend who attempted suicide during drug-fueled binge

The music world is sending prayers to outlaw country icon Billy Don Burns after he recently revealed that he tried to take his own life during a drug-fueled binge.

Burns shared the stunning news in a lengthy post to his Facebook page on Nov. 25.

Burns explained that he flew to Los Angeles in November to spend time with Johnny Rotten.

“I knew he doesn’t like me bringing any cocaine or anything around and all that so I found me (some) cocaine and whiskey and I got messed up man,” Burns said. “It really takes me way out there now and I ran over a big concrete thing and tore up my car.”

With his car disabled, Burns said he walked to the liquor store, and he decided to start “shooting the drugs.”

“I was shooting Jim Beam Whiskey and cocaine,” he said. “I’m out of my head man. I decided ‘why don’t you just kill yourself Billy?’ So, I stabbed myself.”

Burns estimated he stabbed himself about “4 or 5” times and bled “over a pint on one of the cuts.”

“They rushed me to Arrowhead Regional Medical Center in Colton, CA,” he said. “They put me on the 4th floor which is a lockdown floor in the telemetry unit, that is a heart unit.”

He closed by asking everyone to pray for him. And fans were quick to respond with the love.

“Praying for you, BDB,” Sharon Prescott Rogers wrote. “You are loved and cherished by many!!! Please don’t hurt yourself. God gave Jesus for you. Keep hanging in and hanging on. When you hurt yourself, Billy, you hurt everyone who loves you and we do, man. Asking for God’s healing for you. In Jesus’s Name. Amen.”

“Prayers for you BDB, you’re a good man,” Mason Meyer replied. “The good lord has a purpose for here on earth keep on being a soldier for him he will call you home when it’s time and it’s not time yet, love you brother.”

There were plenty more comments like that and you can see those as well as Burns’ post here.

Good news for fans of Burns is in that follow up posts he indicated that he is now “doing well,” and entering treatment.

“This time is different,” he said. “I have always had to go to treatment because it was ordered from someone else. This time I am going for myself. This will be my new chapter.”