The 56-year-old rock star reminisced about the incident from the previous year.
He shared, "I had been smoking in the room with the art and the objects, as usual. Someone I didn't know had said, 'I'm not sure if you're allowed to smoke in here'."
Continuing, he mentioned his faux pas, "I'd dutifully picked up a little ashtray on the sideboard where I was leaning and extinguished my cigarette. Sadly, unlike some staterooms, not everything in this one was actually an ashtray."
The blunder led to quite the mishap, "I'd happened upon an antique figurine of the naked baby Jesus and stubbed my fag-end out by rubbing it around in his crotch, quite obliviously."
His attempts to lighten the mood didn't go over well, as he recalled, "I tried to put a positive spin on it," and detailed seemingly comical attempts at damage control, "I even picked baby Jesus back up to demonstrate his robustness by tugging one of his little arms. The arm came off along with a plume of impossibly fine, glittering, powdery dust."
Despite trying to fix it, "I managed to wedge it back on."
Nowadays, James has retired his party lifestyle for farming life in the Cotswolds, surrounded by his large family, reports the Daily Star.
The Parklife hitmaker, who resides with his wife Claire Neates and their five children, has not touched a drop of alcohol since 2002. Opening up about domestic life post-touring, he revealed: "You get home after a tour otherwise," adding, "You get home and you have to wash up and the kids are like, 'Dad, stop being a [redacted].'".