Florence Welch Gets Drunk And Sets Fire To Her Hotel Room

Florence Welch has admitted that she once got so drunk she set fire to her hotel room.

Speaking of the evening in question, the singer said the incident happened after she drank seventeen dry Martini's and fell asleep with a tea light burning.

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The flames which singed half the hotel room almost cost the singer her life when she failed to wake up during the blaze. The star had also chipped her tooth earlier that evening and failed to remember it the next day.

In a revealing interview with Q Magazine the star spoke of her boozy ways "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."

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However it wasn't the fire damage that caused the most financial damage during the incident. Drinking with Kanye West and Lykke Li before the fire, Welch admits that the seventeen drinks beforehand cost her more "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 bloody 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."

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