HE’S BEEN AROUND –
Nov. 21, 2025 – “I’m glad I quit when I did. Because I was this skinny little long-haired hippie, working as a roadie, and I looked in the mirror on an airstream trailer one day and said, ‘You’re gonna die. You have to stop.’” Thornton revealed he had to quit cold turkey. “Back then they didn’t have programs and support groups and things like that,” he said. “I quit on my own. I sweated it out for about four days.” While Thornton is happy he quit all drugs, he does believe there are lingering positive effects from one substance he tried in his youth: psychedelics.
He revealed he tried acid and “didn’t like it. I didn’t have good trips. And I kept doing it ‘cause everybody else was doing it.”
However, he added, “I do believe it did unlock my mind to be a better artist. I honestly believe that psychedelics helped me as a writer and as an artist in general.”While the “Bad Santa” actor feels those experiences happened to “another person” because he’s changed so much since then he believes the effect of the drug is “still around.”
