Samuel L. Jackson Reveals Drug Addiction in his Early Career

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Mar. 18, 2022 – Jackson was addicted to crack cocaine during in the early years of his marriage and career. He said his addiction defined relationships with his family and it emotionally separated them even when he was physically present.

“I had basically moved into the basement of our brownstone,” he said. “I was like the troll in the basement, and every now and then I’d come upstairs and hover around to do something. I was addicted and being crazy.”

“I’d sit there and smoke crack while I listened to the play,” Jackson said.

In the People interview, Jackson said his wife’s unconditional support offered light during some of his darkest times and she pushed him to go to rehab.

“She didn’t have to try to fix me,” he said. “She could’ve just said, ‘Get out,’ and left me into the world, let me go and be whatever I was going to be.” Jackson told “Entertainment Tonight” that his breaking point was when his wife and daughter found him unresponsive and facedown on the kitchen floor.