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Whoopi Goldberg opens up astir her past addiction pinch cocaine successful her upcoming memoir, retired May 7.Charles Wenzelberg / New York PostWhoopi Goldberg admits successful her upcoming memoir, “Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me,” that she erstwhile had a superior addiction to cocaine.
“I had stayed beautiful acold distant from drugs, isolated from for pot, aft getting cleaned up successful nan early 70s,” nan Oscar winner, who went to rehab earlier she was famous, writes successful her tome.
Goldberg, 68, went connected to explicate really Hollywood and New York redefined nan meaning of “recreational supplier use” successful nan 80s.
“I was invited to parties wherever I was greeted astatine nan doorway pinch a vessel of Quaaludes from which I could prime what I wanted,” nan “Sister Act” prima recalls. “Lines of cocaine were laid crossed tables and bath counters for nan taking.”
Goldberg explains that partygoers knew cops were ne'er going to ambush nan location of a “big-time shaper aliases actor,” truthful nan cognition was allegedly “very relaxed” and “everyone partook.”
The EGOT victor besides admits to believing that she could “handle” cocaine arsenic it didn’t look “dangerous” and it seemed for illustration everyone had entree to it astatine nan time.
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Goldberg writes that everything was OK for astir a year. She claims she was capable to hide her supplier usage and proceed working, moreover showing up to group connected clip pinch nary issues.
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Not soon agelong after, however, she felt for illustration cocaine “started to footwear [her] ass.”
Things sewage truthful bad that Goldberg recalls hallucinating. At 1 constituent she believed she saw a vulnerable animal lurking nether her furniture that would effort to onslaught her if she sewage up.
“So I didn’t move retired of furniture for twenty-four hours,” nan “Ghost” prima writes. “That benignant of s–t doesn’t extremity pretty. There’s only truthful agelong a personification tin clasp their bladder.”
Finally, Goldberg had what she calls a “slap successful nan look moment” erstwhile she was staying successful a ritzy Manhattan hotel. She was sitting successful nan closet, doing nan drug, erstwhile a housekeeper came in, opened nan closet doorway and screamed.
Goldberg leaped up and explained it was her room but past caught show of her look successful a mirror, which was smeared pinch cocaine.
The “Star Trek” alum considers herself lucky, penning that she was “able to extremity utilizing narcotics quickly,” moreover though she knew going acold turkey wouldn’t beryllium easy.
“I knew I’d person to alteration retired my friends and move down invitations but I could do that,” she recalls. “I didn’t want to die.”
“Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me” hits bookshelves connected May 7.
