Keanu Admits Drug Use

Published January 12th, 2001 - 02:00 GMT
Al Bawaba
Al Bawaba

Talking with glossy magazine Vanity Fair, Keanu Reeves admits to using, and vastly enjoying, recreational drugs. We're shocked, truly shocked. Not!  

Reeves does nothing to dispel his image as a laid-back kind of dude by saying in the February issue of the magazine, "I've had wonderful experiences [with drugs]. I mean, really wonderful. In teaching. Personal epiphanies. About life. About a different perspective, help with different perspectives that you have. You know what I mean? Relationships to nature. Relationships with the self. With other people. With events." Cosmic, bro.  

Although Reeves has achieved box-office fame with his pumped-up action dudes in Speed and The Matrix, his surfer-dude persona is still very much intact.  

The 36-year-old actor says he has had to work hard to dispel his reputation as a drug user, saying, "… I did some things that I wouldn't have normally done if I didn't have to, like a Japanese commercial to pay the rent or the Rush Rush video with Paula Abdul." – Albawaba.com.