Oh boy.
We think the publicist for Oscar-winning actress Helen Mirren must have had the day off when the thesp recently opened up to GQ magazine.
We’re not used to someone being so candid!
Maybe it’s an old people thing?
Old people are more likely to not filter and say it as they see it!
Dame Helen revealed she did all types of drugs, loved coke but stopped doing the drug because of a Nazi war criminal:
“I loved coke. I never did a lot, just a little bit at parties. What ended it for me was when they caught Klaus Barbie, the Butcher of Lyons, in the early 80s. He was in South America and living off the proceeds as a cocaine baron. I never touched it again. I grasped the full horrifying structure of what brings coke to our parties in Britain….I hated marijuana. It made me paranoid and unhappy.”
There was also a horrifying experience after taking the hallucinogenic drug LSD in her 20s with a group of bohemian friends. She vowed: “Never again.”
Sadly, she also revealed that she was date raped a few times. BUT, her views on date rape are surely going to kick up a storm.
The actress said date-rape was a “tricky area” and something men and women had to work out between themselves.
Huh????
Though she did say it wasn’t rape if a guy engages in sex with a woman if she says ‘no’ at the last second, she thinks a guy shouldn’t be brought into court for rape if the couple were engaged in sexual activity:
“I don’t think she can have that man into court under those circumstances. I guess it is one of the subtle parts of the men/women relationship that has to be negotiated and worked out between them.”
“It’s such a tricky area, isn’t it? Especially if there is no violence.”
“If a woman voluntarily ends up in a man’s bedroom with her clothes off… Look at Mike Tyson. I don’t think he was a rapist.”
The actress who played Queen Elizabeth II has been cast as brothel madam in her next flick and went on to say her looks have been a ‘disadvantage’ for her:
“I’ve always had big tits and blonde hair.”
“That can be a disadvantage. You are not allowed to be intelligent. You are patronised and insulted”.
“I once dyed my hair dark and I felt people were much more taking me at face value, rather than as the iconic blonde D-cup woman.”
Helen’s PR team are probably totally panicked right now!
Such crazy stuff!
[Image via WENN.]
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