Dennis Quaid talked to Newsweek about an addiction to cocaine that almost ran his career into the ground.� Back when Quaid was a young up-and-comer, cocaine was as common as cocktails.� In fact, Quaid said that some movies had it built into the budget as ?petty cash? because everyone on set was snorting lines.� The eighties!
Quaid?s story sounds exactly like those of child stars whose lives went to total sh__ due to a mixture of heavy drugs and ?too much too soon.?� Quaid told Newsweek,
?Coming from where I came from?lower-middle-class life, from Houston into Hollywood?and all of a sudden this success starts happening to you, I just didn?t know how to handle that. Doing blow just contributed to me not being able to handle the fame, which, at the time, I guess I felt I didn?t deserve.?
It got to the point where a young Quaid realized he?d be dead in five years if he didn?t clean up his act.� The Soul Surfer star checked into rehab the next day, but beating the addiction and becoming an actual person took time.� Things didn?t turn around the moment he left treatment.� A bad movie here and a humbling experience there in the ?90s taught Quaid a lesson in living, giving him a ?resolve and a resilience to persevere in life.?
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Now clean and sober, Quad is the proud papa of twins Thomas and Zoe with wife Kimberly.� He also a son Jack, 19, from his marriage to Meg Ryan.
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