Late musician and actor David Cassidy told producers before dying that he had lied about having a drinking problem to hide sadness. In the last years of Cassidy's life, the former teen idol apparently struggled with alcohol abuse, resulting in three DUI arrests in five years. After a 2014 trip to rehabilitation centre, he told family and friends that he had stopped drinking.

But in a new documentary which will air in the US next week on A&E network, Cassidy will be seen making a shocking admission just two months before he died of organ failure on November 21 at the age of 67, reports people.com. After being rushed to the hospital when he fell ill in a recording studio, Cassidy called producers to explain what had happened.