Samuel L. Jackson crack confession Broadway
by Freddenver: Samuel L. Jackson
Samuel L. Jackson admitted that he smoked crack while performing in a Broadway play, and his family discovered him unconscious on the kitchen floor. He said, “You were doing that play and I guess the day they found me passed out on the floor in the house I had been to a party and you got me put in rehab.” The full interview is available at
Transcript (en)
An alcohol addiction. You were doing that play and I guess I had gone the day that they found me passed out on the floor in the house or whatever. I had been out at a bachelor party or something, but you were doing that Mike Nichols play when you called out and got me put in, you know, got me into that rehab place. She didn't have to do what she did. She didn't have to call, you know, this friend of mine and get me a place in rehab or try to fix me. She could have just said, you know, get out and whatever and just left me into the world and let me go and be whatever I was going to be. I would have done that. I felt like doing that, but I come from a very God-fearing family, so I couldn't do that because I felt as though God had spoken to me and said, now you can't leave this young man like this. So give him some help, and then if you feel like leaving afterwards, we'll talk about it. I was given another chance to be who I was supposed to be. Like she always said, you know, that one of these days I was going to grow into the man that I was supposed to be. And, you know, that was an opportunity to do that. And it's a very real thing for me. There was a lot of repair work that had to be done. A trust that had to be rebuilt. so it was more about let's just take it as they tell them in rehab let's take it one day at a time because it there this was a lot and eventually
