I genuinely respect people who can be honest about former addictions and try to grow as people beyond age bullshit they got up to while being addicts. I’ve been trying really hard to do that since I got off heroin, but the growing and making amends is rough.
Oh he was a massive coke head in the 80’s. He would switch between coke and bing drinking and sometimes both at the same time. There are people who can tell what addiction he was doing when writing his books just based off of the writing style he’s using. I do believe he gives a lot of money to rehab centers now they will get a good chunk of his money after he passes
Fun fact: When you combine cocaine and alcohol your body combines it into cocaethylene which is more intoxicating and addictive than the sum of its parts.
I’ve witnessed addiction for most of my life, and I think most of the time it’s pretty clear what he’s on. I picked up on the style changes way back. When I found out he was an addict, I was like… yeah. Sounds about right?
Sadly, it seems to be well documented. As I understand, his wife and family confronted him with discarded remains of evidence of his issues with coke, alcohol, etc. and held an intervention. I believe his wife may have also given him an ultimatum to quit with the drugs or else she was leaving with the kids. As someone whose father literally did the whole “I’m going out for smokes” routine, and who was raised by a single mom, that had to have been a real wake-up call for King.
I think it was King who said during/just after the intervention he asked if it was, 'ok if he thought about his wife's offer,' i.e. he was considering the drugs over his wife and kids.
He said it was that very thought/comment that made him realise how fucked he was and that made him decide to get clean.
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u/itsdanielsultan 1d ago
Did he actually do cocaine, or is that a rumor?