SAMUEL L JACKSON: MY DRUG WAR
18 January 2006
The Mirror UK


HOLLYWOOD star Samuel L Jackson has spoken of his desperate battle to beat a 23-year addiction to crack cocaine.

Jackson, 57, told US TV chat show queen Oprah Winfrey how he finally kicked the habit in 1990 just two weeks before playing a druggie in Jungle Fever, the movie that made his name.

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From Crack Addict to the Biggest Box-Office Star In The World
29/04/2005
Arts.Telgraph UK

Samuel L Jackson's 91 films, among them 'Pulp Fiction', 'The Incredibles' and the eagerly awaited 'Star Wars III', have grossed more than £3 billion. But, he tells John Hiscock, it's easy money

It is 15 years since Samuel L Jackson left a drug rehabilitation centre, but he is, he confesses, still addicted.

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