Los Angeles (CNN) — Summer 2013 was blurry for Robin Thicke, according to what the “Blurred Lines” singer told lawyers in April.
“Every day I woke up, I would take a Vicodin to start the day and then I would fill up a water bottle with vodka and drink it before and during my interviews,” Thicke said in a deposition transcript made public Monday.
Being high and drunk appears to be Thicke’s defense in a high-stakes lawsuit filed by Marvin Gaye’s family against Thicke, producer Pharrell Williams and hip-hop artist “T.I.” Clifford Harris Jr.
The lawsuit filed last fall contends Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” is an illegal rip-off of Gaye’s “Got to Give it Up.”
“It is a musical impossibility,” he said in in the April 23, 2014 deposition. “They’re two complete different syncopations and note choices and different keys. One’s a minor key and one’s a major key.”
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