Dennis Quaid reveals he would use 2 grams of cocaine a day during the height of his crippling drug addiction in the 1980s
Renowned actor Dennis Quaid has opened up about his crippling battle with cocaine addiction that began during the height of his fame as a movie star in the 1980s. He would take up to two grams of cocaine a day at the peak of his addiction.
In a tell-all interview with The Times, he spoke about how he fell deeper and deeper into his addiction; every time he tried to quit by 4pm the next day, he would be back at it again. He said, "I liked coke. I liked it to go out. I would do coke and I would use alcohol to come down." He finally decided to check himself into rehab after a "white light experience."
He said, "I had one of those white-light experiences where I saw myself being dead and losing everything I had worked for my whole life. So I put myself in rehab." Quaid gave up alcohol for 10 years as he battled to overcome the addiction, revealing he missed cocaine for 'quite a while'. Speaking about alcohol he said, "I started drinking again because alcohol was never my problem. I never liked the feeling of being drunk."
