Josh Peck Opens Up About Substance Abuse Issues In Younger Days
Former child stars turning to drugs and alcohol abuse as they enter adulthood is sadly nothing new to the public. Some of them have managed to kick the habit while others sadly see their lives end prematurely. Josh Peck, the former Nickelodeon star famous for his roles on The Amanda Show and Drake and Josh back in the early 2000s, surprised the masses when he confirmed that he too once participated in that sort of lifestyle in his younger days.
Peck, who was recently cast in Christopher Nolan's upcoming Oppenheimer film, opened up about his past with drugs. Peck said the drug use started around the time he had gone through a body transformation during his time on Nickelodeon's Drake and Josh.
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«When I lost the weight, it was a game-changer, but… pretty quickly I got to my goal weight and then became viciously addicted to drugs and alcohol, which took over the next four years of my life,» Peck said during an interview on Michael Rosenbaum's Inside of You. Peck stated that he drank alcohol, used cocaine, and popped pills regularly around the time he hit 18 years old. Although usual child stars around that time take drugs to cope with their lives, Peck admitted he did it at the time to impress a girl and because, as a crowd-pleaser at the time, he perceived it to be normal for actors to do such a thing at that age. «I was in this crazy people-pleasing storm my whole life, and suddenly, I'm looking like a normal… teen, and I'm like, „Oh, they do drugs and that's normal… When I finally said yes (to cocaine)… All I thought was, a. I hope she's watching and (b.) Oh good, I'm normal.“
Luckily, Peck has since kicked the habit, having been sober since 2008. Better yet,
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