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When the first reports leaked that Rush’s hearing loss was linked to an oxy addiction, my first thought was ‘they got him’.

[Steely Tom]

No I don't think that's accurate, unless he didn't tell the truth to his audience. When his hearing began to go, he said that some of his ancestors had gone deaf as they approached middle age, and that he was thankful that the technology existed to give him back at least limited hearing, without which he would find it difficult to carry on with his profession.

I don't remember the story of his oxy addiction, only that one of his housekeepers was involved in some way. It is true that it was around the same time as he lost his hearing.

If he lost his hearing because of the oxy addiction, that's news to me.