\u201cTaxi\u201d alum<\/a> goes on to tell readers his cocaine, alcohol and pot use quickly became \u201centrenched,\u201d although he never appeared on stage or in front of a camera under the influence.<\/p>\n\u201cI wasn\u2019t asking myself what it meant or what it was doing for me,\u201d he adds. \u201cI just knew I liked it, and before long it had a hold on me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lloyd (pictured above in \u201cTaxi\u201d) insists to readers he never performed while high or drunk. \u00a9Paramount\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n
After \u201cTaxi\u201d was canceled in 1983, Lloyd had a drug-fueled accident that injured his hand and required surgery. \u00a9Paramount\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n
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Lloyd remembers being high and drunk during an argument with his then-girlfriend when \u201cTaxi\u201d was canceled after five seasons in 1983.<\/p>\n
After spending the night at his nephew\u2019s L.A. home, Lloyd returned to find out his partner had locked him out \u2014 so he began punching the windows.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe next thing I remember, I was lying on the floor of my kitchen, bleeding out, and paramedics were attending to me,\u201d he writes. \u201cI later learned that I had lost so much blood that they had to give me plasma.\u201d<\/p>\n
The \u201cBack to the Future\u201d star (pictured above in 1985) began his journey to sobriety in 1993. \u00a9MCA\/Courtesy Everett Collection \/ Everett Collection<\/p>\n
The actor (pictured above in \u201cAddams Family Values\u201d in 1993) went to rehab for five weeks \u2014 then relapsed \u201ca few times.\u201d \u00a9Paramount\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n
In an eerie turn of events, Lloyd\u2019s \u201cTaxi\u201d costar Andy Kaufman died the previous evening at the same hospital, losing his battle to cancer at 35.<\/p>\n
Lloyd had to undergo surgery at the time, as well as physical therapy, to ensure he\u2019d be \u201cable to spread [his] fingers correctly.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Addams Family\u201d star entered rehab in 1993 after working with a psychologist who helped him see the damage drugs and alcohol were doing in his life. <\/p>\n
\u201cSome years later on April 1, I got sober for what turned out to be the last time,\u201d Lloyd writes. Disney via Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cIn My Own Time: A Memoir\u201d is in bookstores now. Hachette Book Group<\/p>\n
He remained in rehab for five weeks.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was the beginning, but not the end of it,\u201d Lloyd confesses in his book. \u201cI relapsed a few times after that. \u2026 Some years later on April 1, I got sober for what turned out to be the last time.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Emmy winner also writes lovingly of his time spent playing the eccentric Dr. Emmett Brown in the \u201cBack to the Future\u201d trilogy<\/a> in his tell-all, revealing that both John Lithgow and Jeff Goldblum were on the short list to play the iconic character.<\/p>\nIf you or someone you care about is affected by any of the issues raised in this story, call SAMHSA\u2019s National Helpline at 1-800-662-HELP (4357).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cBack to the Future\u201d star Christopher Lloyd was addicted to cocaine and alcohol for many years, he divulges…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[5301,67383,458,6221,3990,55525,146,85,46,397],"class_list":["post-658583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-addiction","tag-back-to-the-future","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity-memoirs","tag-celebrity-news","tag-cocaine","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}