Overview
- Elton recounts in What Have I Done? that Fry collapsed after a night of heavy drinking, smoking and cocaine use in London in 1992.
- He says he got Fry to A&E in a taxi, where clinicians told him Fry was minutes from permanent brain damage and not many more from death.
- The incident followed dinner and an afterparty at Douglas Adams’ Islington home, where Fry was house-sitting at the time.
- Elton writes that he informed medical staff about the cocaine because it could affect treatment, despite fearing reputational and legal fallout in 1992.
- Coverage notes the account is drawn from Elton’s memoir and Fry’s past statements, with no new official medical confirmation published.