Appearing on one of The Late Late Show's UK specials yesterday, James Corden asked Russell if it was true that he once auditioned for a boyband, leading him to recall all the details of his "pitiful" audition.
"As a young man, I made many mistakes," he explained. "During one of my frenzies brought on by the methamphetamine, I thought that perhaps I'd do rather well in the boyband 5ive."
"I believe I sang More Than Words by the band Extreme. I'll recreate it if you want but it was a disaster then, and I think it would be even worse now," Russell joked after a quick rendition of the song.
"It was a pitiful experience, the people were staring down at the table in disbelief and great disappointment by the time I left."
"I could have been the maverick in the boyband. The troubled one, the first into rehab one," Russell noted of his failed audition.
To think what could have been.
