Oscar-winning actress Helen Mirren has revealed that she used cocaine during the early 1980s.
In an interview with GQ magazine, Mirren revealed that she stopped-up taking the drug when Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie was captured, and was believed to be making money from the drug.
During the interview Mirren was asked whether she had always taken whatever drugs.
She replied: "A bit of the skinny [cannabis] when I was younger."
When asked if she had taken anything else, Mirren said: "A bit of cocaine. I loved coke. I never did a bunch, just a little piece at parties."
"But what all over it for me was when they caught (Nazi war criminal) Klaus Barbie, the Butcher of Lyon, in the early Eighties.
"He was hiding in South America and living off the payoff of beingness a cocain baron."
She added: "And from that day I never touched cocaine again. Until that mo I had never grasped the full horrifying structure of what brings coke to our parties in Britain."
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