Jack Black was addicted to cocaine when he was 14
Four years after his parents divorced, he turned to drugs for comfort, says the actor
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.”
