'SNL' Star Darrell Hammond Admits to Crack, Cutting: Most Messed-Up 'Saturday Night Live' Actor Ever?
SLIDESHOW: Most Messed-Up 'SNL' Actor Ever?
Darrell Hammond
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Darrell Hammond
In a new memoir, Hammond reveals that he was using crack and cocaine, cutting himself and drinking heavily during his time on "SNL."
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Chris Farley
Farley was only 33 when he died in 1997 of a cocaine and morphine overdose.
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Robert Downey Jr.
The "Iron Man" was a cast member on "SNL" from 1985-1986. From 1996-2001, he was arrested several times on drug-related charges involving cocaine, heroin and marijuana.
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Bill Murray
Murray was an "SNL" cast member from 1977-1980. His ex-wife filed for divorce in '08, accusing him of domestic violence, infidelity and drug and alcohol addiction. In '07, he was arrested for DUI ... in a golf cart.
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Randy Quaid
Quaid was a cast member on "SNL" from 1985-1986. In recent years, he has been arrested for alleged fraud, burglary and conspiracy.
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John Belushi
Belushi was also only 33 when he died in 1982 as a result of a speedball -- the combined injection of cocaine and heroin.
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"I kept a pint of Remy in my desk at work," Hammond, 56, recalls in "God, If You’re Not Up There, I’m F*cked," out Nov. 8 from HarperCollins, according to The New York Post. "The drinking calmed my nerves and quieted the disturbing images that sprang into my head ... when drinking didn’t work, I cut myself."
It gets even worse. In 1998, police officers escorted Hammond from NBC to New York Hospital in a straitjacket. “My wife came but I didn’t recognize her,” he writes, according to the Post.
In 2002, Hammond confesses, "I'd started adding an obscene amount of cocaine to my binges." And in 2009, after having gone to rehab once, Hammond relapsed. "I had the brilliant idea I should try crack," he says, revealing that he spent some time in a Harlem, N.Y., crack house.
Top Opinion
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Larry 2011/10/25 18:59:35Robert Downey Jr.
I'm also surprised about Hammond didn't figure him to be one doing crack or cutting either.
How can this Drummond guy be the most messed up when he's still alive.
AND has everybody forgotten Phil Hartman?
but,
Then again Downey saw actual jail time.
Murray I just consider a kooky eccentric,
but,
I picked Quaid because he seems to have, ultimately, become mentally insane. Which almost seems like the worst of all possibilities?
I am totally surprised to learn Darrell Hammond was messed up like that?
Hammond was one of those rock-solid 100% reliable, seemingly cool and confident 'workhorse' comics who seemed very good-natured and probably a nerdy family man type.
Sometimes, in later sketches, he seemed to have the glow of someone who started a bottle of rum a bit early but wow I would NOT have picked him for cocaine and straightjackets!
Goes to show you can never know what is going on inside someone from the face of it all. Sorry to hear about this.
He seems like one of the nicest guys on the planet.
R.I.P
God to John Belushi: YOU COULD HAVE BEEN ONE OF THE GREATEST! YOU COULD HAVE LEFT THAT JUNK ALONE! BUT NO...!