Yahoo Lifestyle Josh Brolin recalls taking LSD at 13: 'I saw a fireplace talking to me'
The actor admitted that it was "probably not the best time to start that drug," but that taking the hallucinogen was "the greatest thing I ever did."
Josh Brolin knew about the power of hallucinogens long before he ever starred in Dune.
While visiting Jimmy Kimmel Live on Thursday, the actor recalled his experience taking LSD with the members of his surfer gang the Cito Rats when he was just 13 years old.
“I had a great trip! I mean, I had the most kind of amazing — 13 years old, your brain is still developing, it’s probably not the best time to start that drug, but I really had an amazing time,” Brolin said. “I saw a fireplace talking to me who said some nice things. I liked what he said. I didn’t dislike what he said. Yeah, it was like, caressing. It was wisdom.”
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It was so good, in fact, that someone in their crew suggested a round two.
“We went through the whole thing and I was like, ‘Wow, there’s this revelation and all that,’ and then somebody that night, because it was the Cito Rats, said, ‘We should do it again,’” he explained. “Because like a drunk when you do alcohol, you go, ‘Let’s go to the bar and let’s do it again the next night, and the next night, and the next.’ So I was in the habit of doing things again.”
The second time around, however, was not nearly as fun. “That trip was not so good,” Brolin admitted. “No nice conversation. It was a lot of fire, but not the fireplace.”
Host Jimmy Kimmel had just one question after hearing of Brolin’s drug-fueled escapades: “If you could go back now, would you dissuade that 13-year-old from doing that?”
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The ask put Brolin in between a rock and a hard place.
“Dude, you can’t put me in that position because it’s like every 13-year-old watching your show, ‘cause it’s your biggest demographic,” he teased, before pointing and speaking directly into the camera. “Do not do LSD! Do not do LSD, children!”
Turning to Kimmel, he added, “It was the greatest thing I ever did.”
Watch Brolin discuss his LSD trip — and his mom standing up to a gorilla — in the clip above.
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