Dennis Quaid

Dennis Quaid

Dennis Quaid started doing cocaine in 1974, and continued doing it into the 1980s, he tells Newsweek. "Cocaine was even in the budgets of movies, thinly disguised. It was petty cash, you know? It was supplied, basically, on movie sets because everyone was doing it. People would make deals. Instead of having a cocktail, you'd have a line," he said.
Quaid calls his addiction his "greatest mistake," and it was in the late 1980s that he realized one night he was "going to be dead in five years" if he didn't change things, and he went to rehab the next day.
"It was one of those times when you think, 'Well, if I do the right thing and clean up my life, it‚ I'll get better.' No, it got worse! In 1990 I did 'Wilder Napalm,' which came out and went down the tubes. But that time in my life‚ those years in the in '90s recovering‚ actually chiseled me into a person ... If I hadn't gone through that period, I don't know if I'd still be acting."
Sources: http://scoop.today.com

Dennis Quaid