Harry Hamlin recently came clean and made a shocking confession to his wife Lisa Rinna about smoking.
In 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, while serving his time in prison as a young man.
For those unaware, Hamlin was sent to prison in 1970 after 25 pills that some of his fraternity members had given him were discovered in his possession.
Hamlin revealed: “In prison I was forced to smoke PCP. It made me so stoned [an inmate] forced me to take three or four hits of it and I was completely confused after I had that.
I am thinking of the Mayfair witches actor explained, “I was at Berkeley and my upperclassmen in the fraternity house…came up to me before I went to Los Angeles for Thanksgiving…and said, ‘Take these pills and give them to another house at USC, they need these for their exams.’ So I took them away and they didn’t want the pills… so I had to take them back.”
He further admitted that he went back to school on the plane with the pills in his “guitar case,” prompting 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 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 were both placed in a “crime cell” together.
The next morning, Hamlin went to breakfast, where his prisoner offered him PCP, which he tried without realizing what it actually was.
“That’s how I was forced to have the PCP. Someone brought a bag of rolling tobacco that was soaked in PCP… so they smoked it and there was no smell. But they were high as kites,” Crazy men star said.
