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Dame's drug scandal

Dame Helen Mirren has been caught in a snowstorm of controversy. The Oscar-winning actress admitted in an interview with GQ that she had smoked cannabis in the past and when pressed whether she had tried anything else she replied, "A bit of cocaine. I loved coke. I never did a lot, just a little bit at parties.

"But what ended it for me was when they caught Klaus Barbie, the Butcher of Lyon, in the early 80s.

"He was hiding in South America and living off the proceeds of being a cocaine baron. "And I read that in the paper and all the cards fell into place and I saw how my little sniff of cocaine at a party had an absolute direct route to this f****** horrible man in South America.

"And from that day, I never touched cocaine again.

 

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Joyce Evans at 10:25 on 13th Feb 2009

Good on you, Helen! Maybe if more folks knew the history behind that little sniff of coke, they'd think twice before touching the stuff! Thanks to the drug barons, there's a civil war in Colombia. Many people die every year due to cocaine use. Babies are born addicted - they don't get a say in the matter.

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