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WILD rock star Shane MacGowan was arrested on a drug charge by cops after they were tipped off by singer Sinead O'Connor.
Detectives raided his flat where they found him slumped on the floor and barely conscious.
Worried Sinead, 32, had dialled 999 fearing the ex-Pogues hell-raiser might be using heroin and cocaine and could die.
A source said: "It was a very painful thing to do because Sinead is a good friend. But she did it out of genuine concern for him.
Sometimes you have got to be cruel to be kind. When police got there he was in a terrible state and was almost unconscious on the floor."
Sinead has recently moved out of her home in Highgate, North London, a mile from Shane's home in Hampstead. Her Edwardian house is up for sale at £1.4million. Gap-toothed MacGowan, whose hits include A Fairytale Of New York, was taken to Kentish Town police station but a doctor declared him unfit to be interviewed.
A Scotland Yard spokesman confirmed a man was arrested on suspicion of possessing a Class A drug and bailed to return to the station in January.
MacGowan, now fronting the Popes, was quizzed by police in May after a friend died of a drug overdose at his flat. Robbie O'Neill, 25, had taken four times the normal fatal dose of cocaine.
A friend of Sinead's said: "She is no lover of the police but she is no lover of drugs either and was genuinely fearful for Shane."