Celebs Who Had The Wildest Experiences On Drugs

Apart from the odd cautionary tale, it's rare for a celebrity to go into explicit detail about their experiences with drugs. Hollywood has always been an image-conscious place by nature, and in the age of social media, public figures are under more scrutiny than ever before. Stars are expected to set a shining example for their fans and followers, meaning drugs aren't something you're going to see popping up on verified Insta feeds very often. Of course — as you're about to see for yourself — famous people still get high, they just have to work a lot harder to hide it. That is, if they actually want to keep it hidden.

It seems that even when you're world famous, some drug stories are simply too insane not to share. From A-list actors and Grammy-winning singers to Platinum-selling rappers and stand-up comedians, the following celebs have all dished about their wild experiences on drugs.

When he sat down for an interview with W Magazine, former Spider-Man actor Andrew Garfield revealed that he spent his 29th birthday super high in The Happiest Place on Earth. "We went to Disneyland and we ate pot brownies," he said. "It was literally heaven." He was with his then-girlfriend Emma Stone and a bunch of friends, pictures from the day (obtained by BuzzFeed) confirm. Garfield went on "Space Mountain three times in a row" and later "freaked out" during It's A Small World, he told the mag. "I was like, 'It is! It is a f****** small world!'"

It's A Small World is in the Fantasyland area of the park, where the brownies really went to work. According to Garfield, he and his eight friends somehow all ended up on the exact same wavelength. "There was a song that was playing, coming out of the trees," he explained. "At one point we all started to look around going, 'We're all doing the same dance! How did this happen?!'" By this point in the day they were all "really f****** high," he said, though their tour guide was apparently none the wiser. "I think she was that innocent and pure of heart that she had no idea that we were on drugs," Garfield added.

Believe it or not, Seth Rogen's best drug story isn't about weed. Speaking to Jimmy Kimmel, the "Pineapple Express" star revealed that he and a friend once had a wild experience on magic mushrooms while visiting Amsterdam. "We decided we were going to do a bunch of mushrooms, because that sounded fun," Rogen, who was 18 at the time of the trip, said. The plan was to buy supplies and have a picnic in the park, but things began going awry when Rogen realized that he needed the bathroom, and quickly. With nowhere else to go, he "burst into a tiny little cafe," terrifying the locals. "I was in there for an hour," he recalled. "I don't even know if I went."

Rogen set off in search of his friend after finally leaving the cafe bathroom, and he apparently found him in a paranoid state. His pal insisted they hightail it out of the city entirely, and Rogen, who, having eaten way too many mushrooms after a mix-up with the weight, agreed. "We went to the train station while still fully tripping on mushrooms and we bought tickets to Paris," the Canadian star recalled. "We arrived in Paris in the middle of the night as we were kind of sobering up. We were like, 'Why are we in Paris right now?'" How about that for some shroom-nanigans. 

Hollywood megastar Samuel L. Jackson has been open about the fact that he experimented with different types of drugs during his younger years. "I had teachers who told me things like, 'If you want to be great you have to learn how to be drunk and high and still do the play,'" he recalled during an interview with Jimmy Kimmel. "So, we tried it... drink a little wine, smoke a little weed, go on stage, and when you get through that, you're kinda confident."

Jackson eventually stepped it up a notch and began dropping acid before his shows. This resulted in a couple of trippy performances that must have looked very peculiar to audiences on the night. "I've been standing in the middle of the stage and watching my feet sink," the Hollywood veteran told Kimmel. "You just take your feet up out of the floor, walk across the stage, and everybody's going, 'Why is he walking like that?'" 

Speaking with The Guardian in 2016, Jackson noted that while he was "out of [his] mind a lot of the time," he "had a good reputation" early in his acting career. "I was doing things the right way, it was just that one thing that was in the way — my addiction," he said. And once that was out of the way, it was — boom! The door blew wide open." Jackson has not used drugs since shooting 1991's "Jungle Fever," which was his first time performing completely sober, he told The Telegraph.

If you or anyone you know is struggling with addiction issues, help is available. Visit the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration website or contact SAMHSA's National Helpline at 1-800-662-HELP (4357).

You may recognize Joel Kim Booster from his roles in NBC's "Sunnyside," Hulu original "Shrill," and the Paramount+ revival of "iCarly," but he's best known for his work on the stand-up circuit. The Korean American is a Comedy Central regular, and he shared a wild story about an LSD trip when he got interviewed for the cable channel's series "Tales From the Trip." He was on vacation at the time, he recalled. "My friend busts out his LSD, which in this case is in the form of Oreos," said Booster. "We pop a few Oreos and we're like, 'Let's head to the beach, it's our last day, let's enjoy it while we can!'"

The "Oreos" went to work the moment he plunged his hands into the sand, which was "starting to sort of float," he said, adding: "The thing about LSD is it turns your entire world into a video game." When hunger struck, the tripping group moved back to their rental in search of snacks. After partaking in "the best pineapple [he's] ever tasted," Booster decided to put on some music and stare at himself in the mirror. Things got pretty weird ("My face started to melt, I started to look old, I started to see myself as a baby"), but he came away feeling more confident than ever.

Megan Fox and her boyfriend Machine Gun Kelly are among a growing number of celebs who have tried the trendy psychoactive tea ayahuasca, the actor revealed during an appearance on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" The former star of the "Transformers" and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" franchises told guest host Arsenio Hall that she and her rapper beau visited a specialized ayahuasca retreat in Costa Rica, and she went expecting a certain level of comfort. "But you get there and you really are in the middle of the jungle," Fox said. "Nothing glamorous about it. It's all a part of making you vulnerable, so you sort of surrender to the experience."

After downing copious amounts of lemongrass tea to induce vomiting, the empty-stomached celebs began their ayahuasca journey. "We did it for three nights, it was incredibly intense," Fox said. "The second night, I went to hell for eternity. Just knowing it's eternity is torture in itself, because there's no beginning, middle, or end." When Hall asked Fox how she knew where she was ("Is there a sign, next exit Hell?" he quipped), she said that what she experienced was more of a personal hell, not a fire and brimstone one. "It just goes straight into your soul, and it takes you to the psychological prison that you hold yourself in," she explained. Sounds chill.

Comedian and actor Theo Von had an incredibly awkward late-night encounter with his landlord after accidentally setting off his building's fire alarm while high on cocaine. "I was making a smoothie," he told fellow podcaster Joe Rogan. "I thought I heard something outside, which is kinda weird to even think of when you have a blender going." He went into the hallway to investigate and managed to lock himself out — with the blender still going. "I have to go to my landlord, who lives right down the hall," he recalled. "The fire alarm starts going off in the building right as I'm at his door knocking."

It was around "2:30 in the morning" at this point, and his landlord wasn't pleased to see him. In his panic, Von told him that he was having a belated Christmas bash. "It was f***** end of January," he said to a highly amused Rogan. "So he comes back to my apartment, he's f****** pissed. He unlocks the door — and there's nobody in there." Rogan almost fell off his chair laughing when Von told him that he still lives in the same apartment. He doesn't get up to the same kind of shenanigans nowadays, however, having joined a 12-step program and finding sobriety.

If you or anyone you know is struggling with addiction issues, help is available. Visit the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration website or contact SAMHSA's National Helpline at 1-800-662-HELP (4357).