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Jason Donovanwho starred in the Australian soap opera Neighboris opening up about his past cocaine addiction.
“I was vilified in the ’90s for declaring on a news show, ‘Why do I do drugs? Because I like them,’ and that was true at the time,” Donovan, 57, told the Tuesday, Dec. 16 edition ofGreat collaboration with Jamie Lane” podcast.
Lane, 37, asked the actor if he had previously admitted to taking “three grams of cocaine a day.”
Donovan responded: “Of course there are days, weekends that start on Thursday and sometimes they don’t end until the following Tuesday or whatever.”
In the nearly three decades since the final episode of “Full House,” several of the show’s stars have opened up about overcoming their addictions. “We all have our demons,” Jodie Sweetin, who plays Stephanie Tanner on the sitcom, exclusively told Us Weekly in March 2016. “When we finally learn to let them go, we (…)
He described his drug use as a “binge binge” rather than a “consistent heroin-type situation. Your body has to shut down at some point, especially with something like cocaine.”
Donovan added, “Paranoia, especially about cocaine, sets in after 24 hours – you think MI5 is right outside your window.”
Donovan, who played Scott Robinson on the hit soap opera from 1986 to 1989, said he struggled with drug addiction and struggled to stay sober.
“You’ll feel great for two days and then that little devil in your head comes out and says, ‘Come on, let’s do it shamelessly once, let’s blow it up again,'” he said.
In the year before Matthew Perry’s shocking death on October 28, 2023, the 54-year-old Friends star, who had long battled drug addiction, seemed to be on the rise. In September 2022, while promoting his memoir Friends, Lovers, and Scary Things, he revealed that he had been sober for 18 months. Filmmaker(…)
However, he stopped this pattern after starting a family with his wife, Angela Mallochwith whom he shares three children.
At that time, “I was still in my 30s and had plenty of time for my body to repair,” he said. “Plenty of time to recover.”
during an interview The Guardian In January 2024, Donovan, who currently lives in England, was asked what he would change if he could “edit” his past.
“My relationship with drugs,” he said at the time, adding, “I was so selfish that I didn’t even notice what was going on. “
After rising to stardom as Chandler Bing on Friends, Matthew Perry has never shied away from being open about his struggles. “When (fame) happened, it was a little bit like Disneyland for a while. For me, it lasted about eight months, this feeling of ‘I’m successful, I’m excited, there’s no problem in the world.'” (…)
When asked what upset him, Donovan responded with characteristic bluntness.
“Alcoholism,” he told the outlet. “I don’t drink all the time, but I do enjoy a glass of wine, and it’s hard to just have one or two. If I drink too much, I feel bad about myself.”
Donovan previously addressed his drug issues in his 2020 memoir, Reading Between the Lines: My Story Uncut. In the 1990s, he overdosed in a hospital. Kate Moss’21st birthday party in Los Angeles. He has since been back on track, acting on stage and screen, most recently starring in the UK drama The Rocky Horror Show.
