Keane's Tom Chaplin vows never to return to drink and drugs

Keane's Tom Chaplin has vowed that he will never abuse alcohol or drugs again following his stint in rehab.

The star underwent a treatment programme in August 2006 after developing addictions.

Now, following his successful treatment and return to the music scene, he has told BBC News that those days are well and truly behind him.

"I feel enthused and excited about making music again and being in Keane," he said, "and that was certainly not a situation we were in a couple of years ago.

"Although it was a very dark period, it was two years ago, and it seems very distant to me.

"In fact I feel so distant from it [the time he abused drugs and alcohol] nowadays that it's hard to talk about it with any great authority because it was such a strange period of my life. I almost feel like it was someone else's life."

Keane release their third album, 'Perfect Symmetry', on October 13.