Don Henley has testified that what he calls a “poor decision” led to authorities finding drugs and a naked 16-year-old girl suffering from an overdose at his Los Angeles home in 1980 and spurred the Eagles co-founder’s arrest. Henley was asked about the arrest as he testified Monday at a criminal trial surrounding what he says were stolen, handwritten draft lyrics to “Hotel California” and other Eagles hits. Henley pleaded no contest in 1981 to a misdemeanor charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. He testified Monday that he called for a sex worker on a night in November 1980 because he “wanted to escape the depression” he was feeling over the breakup of the Eagles.
