Tom Hanks’ son Chet Hanks admitted he used to do so much cocaine that even hardcore druggies couldn’t keep up with him.
“The drug I had the most problem with was just f–king coke, dude,” the “Your Honor” actor said in a recent episode of fitness influencer Bradley Martyn’s “Raw Talk” podcast.
“I’m a f–king cokehead, straight-up,” he continued before clarifying, “Not anymore, but that is my drug of choice — cocaine, bro, like Tony Montana [Al Pacino’s character in ‘Scarface’].”
Chet, 33, recalled going to clubs and running into “known cokeheads” in the bathroom.
“You’re like, ‘I know this dude’s a f–king cokehead, but I want a little bump.’ Like, ‘OK, fine,’” he said.
“I would go do coke with the cokeheads, and they would be telling me, like, ‘Yo, chill, bro. … Wait a second. Give it like 15 minutes.’”
While the “White Boy Summer” rapper confessed he “couldn’t get enough” of the drug at the time, he now realizes it is “so bad” for not only his heart but also his “soul.”
“It’s terrible. It eats away [at you]. You just, like, wither away ’cause you can’t eat, you can’t sleep,” he said.
Chet, who has an 8-year-old daughter named Michaiah with his ex Tiffany Miles, has long been open about struggling with addiction since the age of 16.
In 2015, the “Empire” star posted a video on Instagram in which he revealed he had gone to rehab.
“A couple months ago, I was selling coke, doing coke until I couldn’t even snort it up my nose anymore because it was so clogged. I even smoked crack,” he candidly shared at the time.
Chet was so troubled at one point that his parents sent him to a wilderness program in Utah.
“I was there longer than anybody else that I had seen come or go in the whole program, except for one kid who was there for six months,” he remembered in a 2022 interview.
Tom shares Chet and son Truman, 28, with his wife, Rita Wilson.
The “Forrest Gump” star, 67, is also the father of son Colin, 46, and daughter Elizabeth, 42, both of whom he had with his ex-wife, Samantha Lewes.
If you or someone you know struggles with substance use, call SAMHSA’s National Helpline at 1-800-662-4357 to learn about resources in your area.
