Music legend Smokey Robinson is speaking out about his cocaine addition and how it ended instantly at a church in Los Angeles 30 years ago.

Robinson gave an interview with a London newspaper where he said the prayer of a pastor snapped the control the vile drug had over his life.

“She told me that God had told her I was coming [to the service]. And she told me all the things that were happening to me, physically and emotionally and mentally – which I shared with no on one earth,” Robinson said in an interview with The Telegraph. “No one knew. She told me every one of them that night. She said God had showed her what was going on. And I walked in that church an addict, and I came out free. May of 1986. Never looked back.”

Robinson said his addictions began smoking marijuana but he never thought he could end up a drug addict.

“I thought that it couldn’t happen to me. That’s the cunning of drugs … Because when I was younger I used to smoke a whole lot of weed. But weed was always manageable for me. I could have some killer weed and put it away for a year and not touch it! It never had the handle on me. I had the handle on it,” said Robinson.

Robinson travels around the world sharing his faith in places like prisons where he feels his testimony of overcoming drugs can be an inspiration to those jailed on drug related crimes.