During a recent appearance on the 'Armchair Expert' podcast, Jack Black discussed getting addicted to cocaine as a teenager and how theater helped save his life.
Jack Black recalled how a school therapist was able to help him overcome his drug problem as a teenager. During a recent appearance on Dax Shepard's 'Armchair Expert' podcast, Black shared his experiences with psychedelic drugs and cocaine as a teenager, and revealed he began 'dabbling with the devil's dandruff' when he was in middle school. 'Once I got my bar mitzvah at 13 years old and became a man I was now ready to experiment with ,' he told Shepard.
The 'Kung Fu Panda' star shared that he first tried acid as a young teenager when an older friend, who he looked up to, offered it to him. He moved from Hermosa, where he never felt like he fit in, to Culver City, where he was introduced to bands like Black Sabbath, and felt he had found his group. 'I did look up to him like a big brother figure, or I had a thing where I wanted a father figure, even though I had a great dad, but I wanted the dark dad.
It was here that Black found his love of theater and began to find different outlets to deal with his struggles. 'There was a theater teacher named Deb Devine who I latched onto and she taught us all improvisation games… and got us all thinking about telling stories and it was kind of theater therapy,' he said. 'You could work out some of your demons by playing roles and just come off the top of your head with s--- you're going to say to the other person in the scene.
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