Florence Welch set fire to hotel room when she was drunk
Florence Welch became so intoxicated during a recent trip to New York she accidentally set fire to her hotel room while she was sleeping.
The Florence and the Machine frontwoman was in the Big Apple to perform an acoustic gig and afterwards she partied with rapper Kanye West and Swedish singer Lykke Li in her dressing room.
Florence Welch got so drunk she ripped her dress, lost her cell
phone and chipped a tooth, before heading back to her hotel room,
where she left a candle burning.
The singer has now confessed all about the wild night, telling
Britain's Q magazine, "I think I must have had about 17 Dirty
Martinis. I lost my phone and ripped my dress very badly. I
accidentally set fire to The Bowery Hotel because I'd left a
cinnamon tea light burning.
"I came back to the hotel, passed out in my ripped dress - no
phone, chipped tooth - came round and there was black stuff all
over the wall, my book had melted on the bedside table and there
was a bucket of water on the floor. Actually the last scene you
want to wake up to with a hangover. Half the room was singed."
Florence Welch admits her antics also left a noticeable mark on her
bank balance, adding, "My American publicist was like, 'Ah yes,
there was a very big bill on my credit card.' But the fire damage
was only a couple of hundred. The big bill was the bl**dy dressing
room drinks bill. Kanye West, Lykke Li, me, the doormen, most of
Lower Manhattan, whoever, drinking Dirty Martinis and what have
you. (The amount is) undisclosed."