Keith Richards: 'snorting My Dad Was A Joke'.... Rolling Stones rocker Keith Richards insists he never snorted his father's ashes - his recent comments were made in "jest".The Gimme Shelter guitarist can't believe people took him seriously after he told British music magazine Nme he once snorted his dad Bert's ashes mixed with cocaine.He said, "He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow. My dad wouldn't have cared."It went down pretty well, and I'm still alive."However, Richard's manager Jane Rose tells Mtv.com that the hellraiser's comments were "said in jest. Can't believe anyone took (it) seriously."Meanwhile in related news the aging rocker still indulges in drugs at the age of 63, but is sworn off heroin describing the dangerously addictive narcotic as "f**king painful".The Rolling Stone battled heroin addiction during the 1970s and is determined never to succumb to the temptation again.He tells British music magazine Nme, "The one thing I'll never do is the dope. I won't do that again. Everything else is up for grabs. Why wouldn't I do the dope again? Because I've been there and done that and it's f**king painful.

The other schmucks are doing it all the time and I pity them."

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