BOY GEORGE - BOY GEORGE: 'ARREST NOT TO BLAME FOR AVOIDING NYC'

Troubled singer BOY GEORGE insists his recent New York City drugs arrest is not the reason behind his return to London - it was the city which depressed him. The former CULTURE CLUB star, who was charged with cocaine possession and wasting police time for falsely reporting a burglary at his Manhattan flat, claims he was mad to ever think he would be happy living so far away from his family. He says, "That was a moment of insanity! New York is a great place to visit but it's not a good place to live. Not for me anyway. "I need to be around my friends, my family. When I got back - I came back when I got arrested - and spent some time with my family, I suddenly realised that I'd been so miserable for months. "To start with I was fine but after a while I started to feel really isolated, which isn't good for me."