Dennis Quaid Talks About His Cocaine Addiction

Dennis Quaid just shared his past concerning his former cocaine addiction to Newsweek.  It’s very eye opening and a bit shocking.  Here is an excerpt from the interview:

By the time I was doing The Big Easy, in the late 1980s, I was a mess. I was getting an hour of sleep a night. I had a reputation for being a “bad boy,” which seemed like a good thing, but basically I just had my head stuck up my ass. I’d wake up, snort a line, and swear I wasn’t going to do it again that day. But then 4 o’clock rolled around, and I’d be right back down the same road like a little squirrel on one of those treadmills. The lack of sleep made it so my focus wasn’t really there, which affected my acting. Addiction just keeps you from living; you’re basically hiding from life. I had a band then, called the Eclectics. One night we played a show at the China Club in L.A., and the band broke up, just like in the movie The Commitments, because it all got too crazy. I had one of those white-light experiences that night where I kind of realized I was going to be dead in five years if I didn’t change my ways. The next day I was in rehab.

I am so thankful he cleaned up his life.  I love this guy.  He’s an amazing actor, one of the best.  You can ready the entire article over at Newsweek… it’s very touching.