Darrell Hammond was a CRACK HEAD?!?

[MrScorpio]

Ex-SNL Star Darrell Hammond on His Shocking Drug Past: "I Had the Brilliant Idea I Should Try Crack
Mon., Oct. 24, 2011 1:01 PM PDT by PETER GICAS

Comedian Darrell Hammond is sharing some pretty serious stuff.

The former Saturday Night Live star, who impersonated the likes of Donald Trump, Sean Connery and Bill Clinton during 14 seasons on the show, reveals in his upcoming memoir, God, If You're Not Up There, I'm F---ked, that there was absolutely nothing funny going on behind the scenes.

At least, when it came to his personal life...and demons.

"I kept a pint of Remy in my desk at work," he admits in the book, highlighted by the New York Post, of his battle with the bottle. "The drinking calmed my nerves and quieted the disturbing images that sprang into my head...when drinking didn't work, I cut myself."

Hammond recalls how in 1998, it got so bad he once had to be taken out of NBC by police "in a straitjacket" and brought to New York Hospital.


Read more: http://www.eonline.com/news/ex-snl_star_darrell_hammond_on_his/271199#ixzz1bn4hKt8u

[GoCubsGo]

1. Wow!

I caught the end of that story, but didn't hear who was carried off in the straitjacket. He is one of the last people I expected to be that person. Got to wonder what drove him to that.

[TK421]

2. SNL got to be pretty shitty for a while. I don't know if it ever recovered

I haven't watched the show for a long time now

[BlueIris]

3. Woah. Thank goodness he...got help? Has anyone read the book?

He is in recovery or something, right? Right?

[Demoiselle]

4. So sad...Such lovely talent...

I hope he's better now.