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Harry Hamlin He recalled being forced to undergo PCP while in prison in the 1970s.
“I’ve never done ketamine, but…in prison, I was forced to do PCP,” Hamlin, 74, shared on the Friday, Dec. 5, episode of his and his wife’s show. Add treasure chestof “Let’s not talk about husbands” podcast.
Hamlin’s confession shocked Rinna, 62, who questioned what Hamlin meant by “forced” because “PCP is intense.” Hamlin explained that he was arrested in 1970 when one of his fraternity brothers gave him “25 pills” and “25 ounces of grass” (another name for marijuana), and the fraternity was allegedly tasked with whisking the pills to another chapter when he returned home to Los Angeles. The pot was his reward for helping.
“It was exam season and I was at Berkeley. Before I went to Los Angeles for Thanksgiving, I was approached by a senior classmate from the fraternity where I was living, and it was exam time,” he recalled. “He said, ‘Take these pills to another house at USC. They need these for their exams,’ so I took them off, but they didn’t need the pills. So I had to take it back.”
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Hamlin claimed he didn’t know why the pills were rejected. When that failed, Hamlin put them back into his “guitar case” and took them back to school in Northern California. Linna then asked Hamlin if he was traveling on the plane with drugs, and he admitted that he was.
“Do you think that’s smart?” she asked, to which he replied: “Obviously not because I ended up in jail.”
After being caught smoking marijuana, Hamlin went to court and initially accepted a plea deal. But that arrangement was problematic because Hamlin’s attorney and the judge were not present for the final hearing. Hamlin was eventually sentenced to 18 days in jail county jail Available on weekends.
“Things got pretty complicated the first weekend I went,” he explains. “The warden’s brother was an actor at the Berkeley Acting School. He was playing Cyrano de Bergerac, and I was a member of the drama department.”
Because Hamlin had ties to the warden’s brother, Hamlin’s attorney arranged for them to eat burgers with the warden before Hamlin reported to jail.
“I sat down with the warden and the attorney, and we had a cheeseburger together,” he recalled. “The warden said, ‘Listen, when you get there, don’t worry about anything. I’m going to make sure you’re okay.'”
When Hamlin reported for duty, he was placed in a holding cell with a young man in a college uniform who was “crying his eyes out.” Hamlin admitted he “sympathized” with the man and asked him what was wrong. The young man claimed he was arrested after police found LSD in his car. Hamlin felt a connection to another man and asked corrections officers if he could be in the same cell as him. They agreed to Hamlin’s request, and he was eventually placed in a “felony cell.” The young man was released on bail shortly after, and Hamlin remained in a cell with a “felon.”
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“When the kids were let out, they all sat in a circle in front of the portable television, passing cigarettes to each other,” he claimed. “I thought, ‘What’s the weird reality that I’m in jail and they’re handing out marijuana? That’s really weird,’ but you couldn’t smell any marijuana.”
The next day, Hamlin woke up and went to breakfast, where an inmate gave him a joint. Hamlin refused multiple times, but the prisoner insisted he “drink some of this,” eventually becoming PCP.
“Someone brought a small bag of cigarettes soaked in PCP … so they were smoking it and there was no smell. But they were as high as kites,” he said. “I was so excited because the guy forced me to take three or four injections, and after the injections I was completely screwed. That’s my PCP story.”
