Harry Hamlin recently got candid and made a shocking confession to wife Lisa Rinna about smoking.
On the Friday, December 5 episode of their Let’s Not Talk About the Husband podcast, the 74-year-old American actor and writer told his wife that he was “forced to smoke PCP (phencyclidine),” a hallucinogenic drug, when he was serving his time in jail as a young man.
For those unaware, Hamlin was sent to jail in 1970 after 25 pills were discovered in his possession, which some of his fraternity members gave him.
Hamlin revealed, “In jail, I was forced to smoke PCP. I was so stoned because [an inmate] forced me to take three or four hits of it and I was completely messed up after I had that.”
Calling to mind, the Mayfair Witches actor explained, “I was at Berkeley and my upperclassmen in the fraternity house … came to me before I was going down to Los Angeles for Thanksgiving … and said, ‘Take these pills down and give them to another house at USC, they need these for their exams.’ So, I take them down and they didn't want the pills … so I had to take them back.”
He went on to admit that he went back to school on the plane carrying the pills in his “guitar case,” which prompted his Rinna to ask, “Do you think that was very smart?”
“Obviously not because I ended up in jail,” Hamlin replied.
However, because of his crime, he was sent to a holding cell with a young man who was “crying his eyes out” and out of “pity,” he asked the prison guards to let him stay with that miserable guy, so they both were put in a “felony cell” together.
The very next morning, Hamlin went to have breakfast, where his inmate offered him PCP, which he tried without realizing what it actually was.
“That’s how I was forced to have the PCP. Somebody had brought in a little sack of rolling tobacco that was soaked in PCP … so they were smoking it and there was no odor. But they were high as kites,” the Mad Men star recounted.
