{"id":300027,"date":"2024-05-07T22:16:57","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T03:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/whoopi-goldberg-says-she-was-addicted-to-cocaine-early-in-her-career"},"modified":"2024-05-07T22:17:17","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T03:17:17","slug":"whoopi-goldberg-says-she-was-addicted-to-cocaine-early-in-her-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/whoopi-goldberg-says-she-was-addicted-to-cocaine-early-in-her-career","title":{"rendered":"Whoopi Goldberg Says She Was Hooked on Cocaine Early in Her Profession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"cb-2e90040ce1c1c35ff50487793ca711f8\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/whoopi-goldberg\/\"><strong>Whoopi Goldberg<\/strong><\/a> says she was addicted to cocaine early on in her career \u2014 and it got so bad, apparently, that she started to hallucinate \u2026 eventually forcing an a-ha moment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"cb-34c46dcd8e058a93d70d5ba2da9dccdc\">\n<p>The actress\/TV host gets very candid in her new memoir, \u2018Bits and Pieces,\u2019 about how she was doing drugs from an early age \u2014 only to get clean in the \u201970s \u2026 and then dive back into it again in the \u201980s as she was starting to hit the Hollywood scene.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"cb-0c42f96936287b51ec713a6a66926be5\">\n<p>Whoopi says coke was her biggest vice \u2026 as she explains it was quite literally everywhere, and being dispersed with such ease at parties and get-togethers between NY and L.A.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"cb-4c6349af99b82f9d3ecb1e7356b7fdad\">\n<p>She writes, \u201cI was invited to parties where I was greeted at the door with a bowl of Quaaludes from which I could pick what I wanted. Lines of cocaine were laid across tables and bathroom counters for the taking.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><!-- \/adman_adcode (middle) --><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-251c9d1e53bb02e41559be22102c30d9\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-image-block canvas-image-block-permalink canvas-image-block--default \">\n<div class=\"image-block\">\n         <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20240507_4c0db4ae4f0d4464ab48f1324ac97d1b\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:3746ba7e-51dc-498d-ac87-3db317875a13\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"img-wrapper\">\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" title=\"actress \/TV host\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/1715104529_147_Whoopi-Goldberg-dice-que-fue-adicta-a-la-coca\u00edna-al-principio-de-su-carrera.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Whoopi Goldberg book_ Blackstone Publishing Inc\"\/>\n        <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a>\n   <\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-5262ead95822f029f8fb2bab92f98a72\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\" readability=\"37\">\n<p>Whoopi goes on to say that she was knee-deep in cocaine use, and that everything was under control for about a year \u2014 but at one point, she says it started to \u201ckick my ass\u201d \u2026 causing her to have hallucinations and confine herself to her room for long periods of time.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-c700e19c19a12bf02f4c347344715f24\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\" readability=\"35\">\n<p>In fact, she describes one scary episode where she was so high she thought there was a monster under her bed \u2026 and she stayed there for a full day, peeing the bed too.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-f2a85ff99b99c52eded61468a4fd5436\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-gallery-block canvas-gallery-block-permalink canvas-gallery-block--default \">\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-36548680681bae59449b1a2ac015c319\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\" readability=\"35\">\n<p>The moment she got a wake-up call came when a hotel maid found her doing coke in the closet \u2026 and Whoopi saw herself in the mirror \u2014 with white powder all over her face \u2014 she realized she had a major problem and had to get clean (again). So, that\u2019s what she did.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-ed86d7f5cdbc539fcbce534edd980d26\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default canvas-block-is-last \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\" readability=\"29\">\n<p>Whoopi\u2019s book is officially out today \u2026 and there\u2019s a whole lot more she gets into.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/whoopi-goldberg-says-she-was-addicted-to-cocaine-early-in-her-career\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whoopi Goldberg says she was addicted to cocaine early on in her career \u2014 and it got so bad, apparently, that she started to hallucinate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}