Dennis Quaid Opens Up About His Cocaine Addiction in the 1980s

Dennis Quaid discussed his addiction to cocaine in the 1980s in a new interview on Megyn Kelly Today. You can see a clip from the interview below, in which Quaid admits, “I was basically doing cocaine pretty much on a daily basis during the ’80s.”

Quaid talked at length about his addiction and the prevalence of the drug in the era and before, saying that it was “even [included] in some movie budgets,” in the 1960s and 1970s.

“I spent many, many a night screaming at God to please take this away from me — ‘I’ll never do it again. Because I’ve only got an hour before I have to be at work,’” Quaid said. “And then, about 4 o’clock in the afternoon, I would go, ‘That’s not so bad.’ But I had what I call a white light experience, where I saw myself either dead or losing everything that meant anything to me.”

Quaid credits his conversation with then-fiancee Meg Ryan with deciding to clean up and go to rehab, noting, “That was the end of the love affair with cocaine, and I didn’t play music for a while because it was so connected. I meditated for 10 years straight.”

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