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A speeding ticket, a DUI, a weapons possession charge and a lost bag of c ocaine led to ROBERT DOWNEY, JR’s salvation after years of drug abuse and legal woes.
In a candid new interview with Rolling Stone magazine, the actor opens up about the two weeks in 1996 that eventually led to him getting help an d getting clean.
It all began with a traffic cop pulling him over for speeding and disco vering a firearm in his Ford F-150, and led to "many felonies", a brief s pell behind bars and some left over drugs back home.
And it ended with the Iron Man star realising enough was enough - and h e needed help.
He explains, "I’m thinking, ‘Where’s all that great coke?’ Here I was n eeding to anaesthetise like never before. The wife (Deborah Falconer) has moved out, the kid’s (son Indio) gone, my life is a f**king babyshambles , and I suddenly make the neuropathic connection that there’s nowhere the coke can be but the garbage, and I f**king dig in the thing and there it is, and it’s so f**king pure and so clean.
"There I am, in my own kitchen, cooking up some rock - no Vicodin, no V alium, nothing to take the edge off, barely a trace of f**king Absolut Ci tron (vodka) in the fridge, and I just go, ‘This is as good as it gets ri ght now.’" Downey, Jr. quickly realised that moment was as low as he ever wanted t o go: "The only way out of that hopeless state is intervention." (KL/RS/C

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A speeding ticket, a DUI, a weapons possession charge and a lost bag of c ocaine led to ROBERT DOWNEY, JR’s salvation after years of drug abuse and legal woes.
In a candid new interview with Rolling Stone magazine, the actor opens up about the two weeks in 1996 that eventually led to him getting help an d getting clean.
It all began with a traffic cop pulling him over for speeding and disco vering a firearm in his Ford F-150, and led to "many felonies", a brief s pell behind bars and some left over drugs back home.
And it ended with the Iron Man star realising enough was enough - and h e needed help.
He explains, "I’m thinking, ‘Where’s all that great coke?’ Here I was n eeding to anaesthetise like never before. The wife (Deborah Falconer) has moved out, the kid’s (son Indio) gone, my life is a f**king babyshambles , and I suddenly make the neuropathic connection that there’s nowhere the coke can be but the garbage, and I f**king dig in the thing and there it is, and it’s so f**king pure and so clean.
"There I am, in my own kitchen, cooking up some rock - no Vicodin, no V alium, nothing to take the edge off, barely a trace of f**king Absolut Ci tron (vodka) in the fridge, and I just go, ‘This is as good as it gets ri ght now.’" Downey, Jr. quickly realised that moment was as low as he ever wanted t o go: "The only way out of that hopeless state is intervention." (KL/RS/C

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