The Weeknd’s 'dark' drugs past and 'meaning behind Can't Feel My Face'

The Weeknd.

He's sold 75 million records worldwide and has an estimated £73million in the bank, and today The Weeknd will solidify his status as one of the world's biggest stars by performing the coveted Super Bowl half time slot. It has been a stratospheric rise for The Weeknd - real name Abel Tesfaye - who quit school at 17, left home and spent his teenage years partying, shoplifting and using the money to buy drugs.

The 30-year-old Canadian once told the Guardian how he took everything from ketamine and cocaine through to MDMA, mushrooms and cough syrup. Living in a drab but since gentrified part of Toronto with a friend and no parents to lay down the law, the star described those bacchanalian years of staying up for days on end as a 'dark hole'.