Summary
Actress Whoopi Goldberg has just released a new memoir about her life.
The 68-year-old actress opens up for the first time about her cocaine addiction.
Summary
After having led a brilliant career in Hollywood, Whoopi Goldberg now appears much more rarely in films and now enjoys starring in series.
Since 2005, the actress has also been a host on the hit show “The View” in which she comments on current events or social issues, surrounded by other presenters and columnists.
If Whoopi Goldberg sometimes confides in her private life, it is this time in her new memoirs, entitled “Bits and Pieces” that she has just made a revelation. LThe 68-year-old actress reveals that she was addicted to cocaine at the start of her careera situation that worsened over time to the point where she began to hallucinate.
Whoopi Goldberg addicted to drugs from a young age
The actress and host thus puts it on paper, the way she did drugs from a young age but explains that he managed to get sober in the 1970s… before diving back into the 1980s when his career in Hollywood took off.
Known worldwide for her role in the “Sister Act” saga, Whoopi Goldberg reveals that cocaine was her biggest vice at the time but also that this drug was literally everywhere and distributed with ease at social parties between New York and Los Angeles.
“I have been invited to parties where I have been greeted at the door with a bowl of drugs from which I could choose whatever I wanted. “Lines of cocaine were laid out on tables and bathroom counters for people to take.”.
This day that changed everything
This drug consumption made the actress dependent for about a year. His daily life is then punctuated by hallucinations and long periods of isolation in his room. She describes a frightening episode where she was so high that she thought there was a monster under her bed and so she sat there for a whole day, not hesitating to pee on herself because she was paralyzed. by fear.
Whoopi Goldberg woke up several hours later when a maid at the hotel where she was staying discovered her collapsed in a closet. The decline comes when the actress, dying of shame, sees herself in the mirror with white powder all over her face and realizes she needs help…
