Stephen Fry opens up about coke abuse
LEON NEAL/AFP/Getty ImagesEnglish actor Stephen Fry at the premiere of “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies” in London in 2014.
Stephen Fry said his cocaine addiction which lasted 15 years harmed his career more than his body.
The 57-year-ancient comedian who was speaking at the Hay Festival in Wales to promote “More Fool Me,” the third volume of his memoirs, admitted that his addiction reached its zenith in the ’80s when “a large section of the Peruvian GDP went up my nose.”
While Fry acknowledged that his habit was financially costly and “monumentally stupid,” he didn’t think that vacuuming up such large amounts of cocaine for so long caused any lasting hurt.
“(Cocaine) didn’t seem to do me any harm,” he said. “Well, it didn’t do me any corporal harm. It did me harm in that I could have done twice as much work. I would have got up earlier. I would have gone for walks. I would have drunk less alcohol.”
@ElliottGSpencer/TwitterStephen Fry, 57, and Elliot Spencer, 27, on their wedding day on January 17, 2015.
But he admitted to not feeling too terrible about it all: “I don’t think I’m going to lie on my deathbed regretting that much.”
The talented performer has said previously that he ingested vast amounts of cocaine between 1986 and 2001, and claims to have snorted it in several unlikely locales, including Buckingham Palace and the Household of Commons.
Earlier this year Fry married stand-up comic Elliot Spencer, who is 30 years his junior.
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