Whoopi Goldberg recalls horrifying moment a hotel maid found her with COCAINE ... trends now
Whoopi Goldberg has revealed that a hotel maid once found her in the closet with cocaine 'all over' her face after she became a 'high-functioning' addict in the 1980s.
Whoopi, 68, opens up about her substance abuse in her new memoir, Bits And Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, And Me, where she also writes about her mom, Emma, being sent away to a psychiatric hospital for two years.
Recalling the height of her addiction to cocaine, the Sister Act star reportedly wrote that she believed she could handle the drug because it didn't seem as dangerous as heroin, which she had previously been hooked on in the 1970s.
According to The US Sun, Whoopi explains in her new book how after moving to Los Angeles, she would attend parties in Hollywood, Bel Air, and Beverly Hills, where a bowl of Quaaludes would greet her at the door and lines of cocaine would be laid out for guests.
Whoopi Goldberg reportedly opens up about her cocaine addiction in her new memoir, Bits And Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, And Me
Whoopi, pictured here in 1985, says she was a 'very high-functioning addict' after moving to Los Angeles
The actor, pictured here at the age of 30, said lines of cocaine would be laid out for guests at the parties she was attending in Hollywood
The mother-of-one, whose first husband Alvin Martin was her drug counselor, explained that at the time she was a 'very high-functioning addict' because she would still show up to work.
However, about a year in Whoopi says that she realized she was getting 'sloppy' when it came to being on set and says a horrifying incident in a Manhattan hotel room was a real 'slap-in-the-face' moment for her.
She described how she was sitting on the closet floor sniffing cocaine on her own, when a maid knocked on the door and let herself in.
'I screamed, she screamed and backed up and looked like she was going to run,' Whoopi explained.
'I had to get to her quickly and try to calm her down. She was staring at my face as I talked,' The View host continued, before admitting she then looked in the mirror and realized that she had cocaine 'all over' her face.
'I'd have been so embarrassed if my mother knew the extent the coke had
