Dennis Quaid Talks About His Coke Habit

You would think that an interview with Dennis Quaid would talk about Meg Ryan and that breakup or perhaps his brother and the star whackers. Nope. Instead, Newsweek talked to Dennis Quaid and got him to open up about all his coke use from the past. Judging from the timeline in the article it sounds like Dennis was pretty much a coke head for the better part of two decades.

"My greatest mistake was being addicted to cocaine. I started after I left college and came to Los Angeles in 1974. It was very casual at first. That’s what people were doing when they were at parties. Cocaine was even in the budgets of movies, thinly disguised. It was petty cash, you know? It was supplied, basically, on movie sets because everyone was doing it. People would make deals. Instead of having a cocktail, you’d have a line."

He pretty much admits to being a big a-hole for that entire time and I can't remember off hand when he got married to Meg Ryan but it sounds like he got clean about the time they got together or shortly thereafter. I am trying to imagine Meg Ryan with her head bent over doing lines of coke and can't see it, although she must have known Dennis did.