Human Stupidity: Irrationality, Self Deception

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My cocaine hell, by the beauty [Charlotte Lewis] who partied away her glittering film
Written in United Kingdom Sunday Mirror, Apr 6, 1997 by Henrietta Knight

Looking gaunt and vulrable, Charlotte Lewis hangs her head and whispers: “I used to have the world in the palm of my hand.
“But I discovered cocaine and just couldn’t stop.
“Everywhere I went there were drugs – at parties, at restaurants, on the sets of movies and at my friends’ homes. I couldn’t get away from it. It took over my whole life and then wrecked it.”
It is the first time British-born Charlotte – who shot to fame at 18 after starring with Eddie Murphy in his film The Golden Child – has spoken of her battle against drugs…and the Hollywood party-go- round that drove her to the edge. Now recovering at the pounds 3,000 a week Priory Clinic in Roehampton thanks to her close friend Eric Clapton she says: “It is only now that I am really willing to admit that I had a problem.
“I have tried to stop taking cocaine twice before, but only in a half-hearted way.
“I used to think that it was something I just did at weekends.
“But living in Los Angeles is like being at one long party, and it’s difficult to get away from it.
“I got to the stage where I was wondering, ‘What is the point of living here? All I have is temptation’.”
Charlotte was just 15 when she was thrown out of the exclusive Bishop Douglas School in North London – and went to Paris to pursue a modelling career.
At 5ft 7in she was too short to be a catwalk model, but found plenty of work in fashion magazines.
She also found a ready supply of drink, drugs and late-night parties.
“I was rebelling against everything,” she recalls.
“After six months I pulled myself together because I realised I looked about 110 years old.
“I stopped drinking, smoking and taking drugs and didn’t really start again until I landed in LA.”
Charlotte made her screen debut when she was just 16, starring in Roman Polanski’s film Pirates. She was immediately hailed as the new Natassja Kinski. When she co-starred with Eddie Murphy in The Golden Child the following year she was acclaimed as the next great Hollywood leading lady.
But along with the fame came the party invites. Everybody wanted to know her.
She became a well-known figure on Los Angeles’ celebrity circuit … and she was seen on the arm of some of the world’s most eligible men.
She had an 18-month affair with Charlie Sheen and romances with Mickey Rourke, dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov and INXS rocker Michael Hutchence.
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Now Charlotte says she is determined to fight her way back to the top – for the sake of her mum.
“I never knew my father, who was a half-Iranian half-Chilean doctor,” she says.
“We didn’t have any money when I was growing up and my mother raised me by herself.
“Now it’s my turn. Even when I was doing really well I still couldn’t afford to buy her a house or a car.
“All I did was to try to make sure she was always warm in the winter.
“Now I really want to be a successful Hollywood movie star and really spoil her.
“But I was never veory good at calling it quits.”
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Addendum – Seems like the Los Angeles prosecutors in 1977 and once again in 2010 are using cocaine drug addicts to try to nail Roman Polanski for all sorts of phoney stale crimes, by doing deals and covering up the witnesses cocaine drug addiction using them to defame Roman Polanski’s character to the world,

But these witnesses lose credibility because of their cocaine drug addiction, and are either biased witnesses because of fear of prosecution for cocaine, or because of Charlotte Lewis’s betrayal and wish for more fame and fortune at Roman Polanski’s expense.

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Roman Polanski is a child molester and that is for sure;*,

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