Stephen Fry: Childhood sweets were gateway to my cocaine addiction
All sorts of people like sweeties. Few develop cocain addictions.
In fact, there seems to be a greater connection between being vastly rich, vastly young, and cocaine – perhaps that’s the reason?
Did he start snorting the sherbet dabs ? It’s very tempting with those liquorice straws.
I always assumed he was just a good old fashioned drunk (like, um, me). Red faced, stumbling on camera when he took over Last Chance to See, falling off stages, etc.
Does remind me though of Sir Pterry’s line. Commander Vimes gets asked “I believe you were an alcoholic?” Answer “No I was a drunk. You have to richer than I was to be an alcoholic”.
Jelly babies were the gateway to paedophilia.
The article says nothing about Fry’s Turkish Delight which, if memory serves, was full of eastern promise.
Also his arse, which apparently is like the talking plant in Little Shop of Horrors:
When I was a teenager, I had this vast empty hole in me that said ‘Feed me’ – Stephen Fry
Naughty missus.
Nor about Fry’s Five Boys.
I saw this about ‘neuroticism’: https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/1719415246668832802.
Actors are the top scorers…..
I’m not sure if you can get chemically addicted to charlie. Apart from the get up & go stimulus, the effect seems to be users feel good about themselves. More self confident. And you couldn’t get anyone more annoyingly full of their own goodness than that cnut Stephen Fry, could you? It’s addictive in the sense that habitual users don’t like the reality of not using & knowing they are, in fact, an annoying cnut generally disliked.
Does Fry like chocolate cream?
I would be mildly surprised if young Master Fry wasn’t partial to sucking on a Fisherman’s Friend.
@Ottokring: “Did he start snorting the sherbet dabs ? It’s very tempting with those liquorice straws.”
When young and stupid I tried doing exactly that. It hurt.
How many twinkies do you think he has got through over the years?
I expect some of it is the milieu in which people move. Fry is a luvvie and the marching powder habit is well known in those circles. As well as alcohol abuse. I guess a lot of them need that to stand up and become someone else in front of a potentially critical audience.
’You would have a pipe made of liquorice and you would have cigarettes with red tips on the end which were candy cigarettes.’
Who remembers the shredded coconut dyed brown to look like tobacco? I loved that.
Stephen Fry: Childhood sweets were gateway to my cocaine addiction
Yes, because eating a Snickers bar is just like snorting a line of coke. Costs about the same as well.
Fry is a baffling mixture of wit, talent and outright stupidity.
How many twinkies do you think he has got through over the years?
That’s a rather personal question, don’t you think?
Dennis, a bit like the Mr Wilde he models himself on.
“When I was a teenager, I had this vast empty hole in me that said ‘Feed me’ “
Before that a finger of fudge was just enough.
You’re missing the ultimate gateway drug: fizzy coke bottles! I used to save up to buy them. That’s why I became a cocaine addict. Not 🙂
Brings an ancient and entirely OT joke to mind.
Did you hear about the fight in the biscuit barrel?
The bandit hit the penguin over the head with a club and made a breakaway in a taxi.
Anyone know where my coat is?
BiFR, that didn’t cause any snickers.
Please stay on topic.
You’re all missing the obvious
Pop Rocks
Like sprinkling crack on yer tongue
That is where the War on Drugs should have started.
BiFR: a bit like the Mr Wilde he models himself on
Well up to a point, if you insist, but Oscar did in fact marry (a woman), had offspring (rather than just “children”) and was a successful poet, author and playwright. I grant you that Oscar never chaired QI on the telly so we can never know for sure if he was really, really clever and could bone up (!) on peripheral stuff related to the question on the card.
Also, had Bosie been 30 years younger than Oscar would Oscar have got away with only two years in Reading nick?
Good point, for all the modern luvvie adulation of Oscar Wilde, his dalliances with teenage stable lads and hotel pageboys would nowadays have given him a far more severe sentence than the Victorian courts imposed.