Clapton's friendship with B.B. King is only a small part of his strong positive connection with the Black blues community. Clapton spent a lot of his own money hiring lawyers to sue British blues players who had not paid royalties to Black blues artists. Among his many beneficiaries was John Lee Hooker, who bought a night club with his money from the settlement.

Clapton was not only a heavy drinker during this period of his life, he was also a heroin and cocaine addict. Cocaine produces hysterical paranoid delusions and often makes people do things they would never do straight. Clapton has been off drugs for years, and is now a very different person. If a woman has sex while intoxicated, we say she did not consent to the sex, and thus is not responsible for it. Why shouldn't the same principle be applied to Clapton's intoxicated behavior?

Finally, I want to know the source for this story. There is no link, and a lot of nonsense like this gets printed in the tabloids. Without knowing the source, I don't even know if the story is true or not.