Billy Joel admits he tried heroin, says he got so wasted that he was ‘too scared’ to ever touch it again

Billy Joel has confessed he tried heroin, but says he got so wasted he was too “scared” to ever touch it again.

Talking smack ... Billy Joel performs during SiriusXM's Town Hall with Billy Joel hosted

Billy Joel has admitted he has tried heroin, but said he got so wasted he was too “scared” to ever touch it again.

The Piano Man, in an interview with Howard Stern at The Cutting Room in Midtown, said he did smack only once — because he got so wasted and “scared” that he never wanted to touch it again, reports The New York Post.

“This was back in the late ’70s I think. We were in Amsterdam, and there was all this stuff going on, so I said, ‘Let me see what this is like,’ ” Joel said, according to an account of the interview published online by Rolling Stone.

“It got me so high, I didn’t know how to deal with it. You just get way out, just go to another place, and you’re into the blues. All you want to hear is the blues. You start drooling, and you get sick.”

The Grammy-winning artist said the experience inspired the 1982 song Scandinavian Skies. The lyrics mention the “sins of Amsterdam” and leaving him “paralysed.”

He made the comment at the “Billy Joel Town Hall,” a Stern-hosted event that included performances of his songs by Melissa Etheridge, Tony Bennett and Pink.

Joel also said during the chat with Stern that he once considered forming a supergroup with Sting and Don Henley.

Confession ... Billy Joel says he started drooling while high on heroin in the 1970s. Picture: AP

“I liked being in a band,” Joel said to the audience of about 150 people.

“Someday, we might put together a silly supergroup.”

Joel, 64, said he doesn’t have plans to release new music but recently recorded a Christmas song with legendary crooner Johnny Mathis, who’s 78.

“Everybody has a hard time understanding that: ‘Why don’t you write new songs?’ ” Joel said.

“Elton [John] would say that to me: ‘Why don’t you make another album?’ And I used to say to him, ‘Why don’t you make less albums?’ ”

Joel also said the success of his daughter, singer Alexa Ray Joel, was not his doing.

“She’s really good,” Joel said. “Everyone thinks Dad set it up ... She did it on her own.”

Read more at The New York Post.