Dennis Quaid Newsweek Soul Surfer
April 10th, 2011
Dennis Quaid writes about his longtime addiction to cocaine in Newsweek, calling it his “greatest mistake” and describing just how common it was in 1970s Hollywood.
“Cocaine was even in the budgets of movies, thinly disguised,” recalls the actor. “It was petty cash, you know? It was supplied, basically, on movie sets because everyone was doing it.”
Quaid admits that newfound fame and the accessibility of hard drugs had him “doing [his] best imitation of an a**hole there for a little while,” pretending things were fine while his life was “falling apart.”
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