{"id":2255394,"date":"2024-05-29T19:35:01","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T23:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dennis-quaid-says-drug-culture-in-hollywood-changed-when-belushi-died\/"},"modified":"2024-05-29T19:36:06","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T23:36:06","slug":"dennis-quaid-says-drug-culture-in-hollywood-changed-when-belushi-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dennis-quaid-says-drug-culture-in-hollywood-changed-when-belushi-died\/","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Quaid: Hollywood&#8217;s Drug Culture Shifting After Belushi&#8217;s Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdennis-quaid-says-drug-culture-in-hollywood-changed-when-belushi-died%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2255394&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In a\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gov-newsom-lifts-calif-lockdown-orders-amid-mounting-backlash\/\" title=\"Gov. Newsom lifts Calif. lockdown orders amid mounting backlash\">recent interview<\/a>, \u2062actor Dennis\u2062 Quaid candidly discussed his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-audio-think-tanks-star-lawsuit-witness-admits-to-tommy-robinson-that-they-bribed-him-for-testimony-against-us-congressional-staffer\/\" title=\"EXCLUSIVE AUDIO: Think Tank\u2019s Star Lawsuit Witness Admits to Tommy Robinson That They Bribed Him For Testimony Against US Congressional Staffer\">cocaine<\/a> use \u2063and how John Belushi&#8217;s tragic death in 1982 marked \u200ca shift in Hollywood&#8217;s drug \u2062culture. Quaid, promoting his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fire-fauci-new-study-finds-closing-schools-in-response-to-covid-19-delayed-herd-immunity-and-will-increase-overall-deaths\/\" title=\"FIRE FAUCI: New Study Finds Closing Schools In Response to COVID-19 Delayed Herd Immunity and Will Increase Overall Deaths\">movie<\/a> &#8220;Reagan,&#8221;\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/transgender-teachers-transition-announcement-to-wisconsin-students-sparks-parent-lawsuit\/\" title=\"Lawsuit filed by parents after transgender teacher announces transition to Wisconsin students.\">shared personal experiences<\/a> of substance use affecting his \u2064performances early in his\u200b career. He acknowledged the impact\u2064 of drugs\u2063 on his work and mentioned\u200c the influence of \u200dBelushi&#8217;s death on the \u200ddrug scene.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/watch-new-trailer-for-reagan-movie-starring-dennis-quaid-just-released\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dennis Quaid<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  opened up about his past use of cocaine and said the drug culture in Hollywood changed when John Belushi died from an overdose in 1982.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During his appearance on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UPxS-l0F5sg&#038;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Piers Morgan Uncensored<\/a>\u201d to talk about his upcoming movie \u201cReagan\u201d \u2014 about the life of late President Ronald Reagan \u2014 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the 70-year-old actor said when he was doing movies early on in his career, he was \u201cdoing blow\u201d and was \u201coperating on 2-3 hours of sleep.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI\u2019d like to say it didn\u2019t affect my performances, but it did, how could it not,\u201d Quaid said. \u201cYou know, when you are not operating at 100 percent capacity.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When pressed by the host if he had friends who died of drugs, \u201cThe Rookie\u201d star said yes, and then mentioned the late-star Belushi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cYou know it all started [when] John Belushi died,\u201d Quaid said. \u201cCocaine before that was, it was in People magazine, doctors saying that it wasn\u2019t addictive. It was a party thing or whatever. Everything was fine and dandy until \u2026 in fact, it [cocaine] was in the budget of movies.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cYou know all that funny money set aside,\u201d he added. \u201cYou would go to meetings and executives would have it there on their desk. It was just a thing. \u2026 And then when John Belushi died, that changed everything. Or at least that\u2019s when it started to change.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Quaid said he doesn\u2019t \u201cmiss it a bit\u201d after he \u201cgot sober for it,\u201d which took four years getting over. He said it was really \u201ca hole\u201d that he needed to fill, and that\u2019s when he went \u201cback to being a seeker again.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1716990157394000&#038;usg=AOvVaw33qQydjIo8bet419amChif\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Earlier in the interview, the two talked about how Quaid lost his way for years with religion after being raised Baptist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI\u2019ve always been a seeker,\u201d Quaid said, as he talked about after high school starting to study other religions around the world. \u201cFinally, after going through the God of cocaine and that era of my life, came back to the red words of Jesus, rereading the Bible, and that brought me back.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI read the Bible and then I read all the other books \u2026 but reading the Bible again, the red words of Jesus again and the things that Jesus said, and that lead me to a personal relationship with God,\u201d he added. \u201cAnd that\u2019s really in the end what it\u2019s all about.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/watch-new-trailer-for-reagan-movie-starring-dennis-quaid-just-released\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH: New Trailer For \u2018Reagan\u2019 Movie Starring Dennis Quaid Just\u00a0Released<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During an interview on &#8220;Piers Morgan Uncensored,&#8221; Dennis Quaid revealed his history with cocaine and highlighted the shift in Hollywood&#8217;s drug scene following John Belushi&#8217;s fatal overdose in 1982. Quaid, 70, shared insights while promoting his new film &#8220;Reagan,&#8221; centered on the late President Ronald Reagan&#8217;s life<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":2255395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2023\/07\/Dennis-Quaid.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2255394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2023\/07\/Dennis-Quaid.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2255394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2255395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2255394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2255394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2255394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}