Dennis Quaid Admits He Used To Do 2 Grams of Cocaine A Day At The Height Of His Drug Addiction

That’s one nasty former habit. Actor Dennis Quaid has been very open in the past about his struggle with drug addiction, but now he’s admitting just how bad it got. In a new tell-all interview with The Sunday Times, the Day After Tomorrow star said he used to do 2 grams of cocaine a day.

“I would do coke and I would use alcohol to come down,” the 64-year-old said, via The Daily Mail. “I liked coke. I liked it to go out…I had one of those white-light experiences where I saw myself being dead and losing everything I had worked for my whole life. So I put myself in rehab.”

He said he gave up alcohol for 10 years as he battled his addiction and that he missed cocaine for “quite a while,” the outlet reported. Dennis added, “I started drinking again because alcohol was never my problem. I never liked the feeling of being drunk.”

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Dennis admitted that he was doing cocaine almost every day, and up to 2 grams of it a day, at the worst of his addiction. In 2011, he wrote for Newsweek that in the late 1980s, “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.”

Dennis also wrote in his Newsweek piece that he spent the 1990s “recovering,” and that period, “actually chiseled me into a person. It gave me the resolve and a resilience to persevere in life. If I hadn’t gone through that period, I don’t know if I’d still be acting. In the end, it taught me humility. I really learned to appreciate what I have in this life.”

The actor also spoke with The Sunday Times about how tough his divorces from Texas property agent Kimberly Buffington — after 14 years — and actress Meg Ryan were. It’s no surprise that the guy has been through a lot. Thankfully, he seems to have kicked his cocaine habit and appears happier and healthier these days. We wish him the best!