Tim Matheson says he’s lucky he never got too big into cocaine … saying he played hard — but, he worried too much about how the white stuff would affect his work to get addicted.
Basically, Matheson says he wasn’t a star and lived paycheck to paycheck … and, he was acutely aware he could lose his income unless he continued to perform well.
That said, Tim says he didn’t completely shun the stuff … but, he didn’t use it as much as some of his contemporaries who were further up the callsheet.
One of those contemporaries … John Belushi — who died of an overdose of cocaine and heroin in 1982 at just 33 years old.
