Jack Black was addicted to cocaine when he was 14

Goosebumps actor Jack Black has revealed that he has a dark past, and was dealing with drugs when he was 14, four years after his parents divorced.

“I remember just lots of turmoil from that time period. I was having a lot of troubles with cocaine ... I was hanging out with some pretty rough characters. I was scared to go to school [because] one of them wanted to kill me. I wanted to get out of there,” Black was quoted as saying by Parade magazine.

Jack’s parents enrolled him in Poseidon, a private school which was infamously known for “troubled youth”.

“Most of the other kids there were expelled from other schools, but I went voluntarily,” he said.

“It was a place to press the restart button.”

The 46-year-old actor felt like he had no one to turn to. He couldn’t tell his parents about the habit as he was afraid of judgement.

“Being raised a Jew, I didn’t have any kind of confessional. I couldn’t talk to my parents about the things that I was most guilty about,” he said.

“My dad loved me very much, but I needed someone who wasn’t judgemental at all, who wasn’t going to be disappointed with me.”