ContactMusic.com is reporting that SLIPKNOT frontman Corey Taylor credits his wife Scarlett for making him realise he had to stop drinking.

Taylor, who was a cocaine addict and homeless at the age of 15, only decided to quit alcohol when his spouse made him take a look at himself in the mirror. He says, "I was an alcoholic. It was really bad by the time we were recording 'Subliminal Verses'. I was out of control, hiding Jack Daniel's (whiskey) bottles under my pillow. I would drink from the moment I got up until the moment I passed out, wherever that was. I didn't like it and my wife didn't like it, so she basically grabbed me by the hair and said, 'Look at yourself!' I was swollen and f**ked up and I didn't realize it. The last night I drank, all I remember is we were at the Viper Room. I was spitting vomit at people walking down Sunset (Boulevard, Los Angeles). I almost got my a*s kicked and wife just left, like, 'F**k you! I can't take this.'"

Corey says that he cannot bear to remember life as an alcoholic, because is so appalled by his irresponsible behavior towards his baby son. The 32-year-old SLIPKNOT singer, whose life has been blighted by drug and alcohol abuse, is most ashamed of the time he babysat his child Griffin. He says, "I used to be a really fun drunk, but there was a point where it stopped being fun and became a need. The first year of my son's life I was f**king unavailable because I was drunk the whole time. I've never admitted this to anybody, but one night my wife went to see MUDVAYNE and I got so ripped that I was sitting at home taking care of my son while I was wasted and it didn't bother me at all. That's f**ked up."