Actor Tom Sizemore has been in some of the biggest movies of all time but, it was his problems with substance abuse that brought all of his success to a crashing halt.
After roles in blockbusters like “Saving Private Ryan,” “Blackhawk Down” and “Pearl Harbor,” the 55-year-old actor started to struggle with addiction.
It was this exact addiction that led to him hitting rock bottom where he was “forced to squat for two years in a building with no electricity or running water, whiling away days smoking crystal meth.”
“My life’s gotten a lot better, it’s been a real chronicle, but I’ve got a long history of substance abuse, I was in a really bad place,” the actor told The Daily Mail.
Sizemore was arrested in 2007 and 2009 for previous drug convictions and has spent 17 months in jail.
The actor also used the interview to clear up the rumors he was homeless for a number of years.
“I wasn’t homeless but I had to fast sell my $7 million house. This is how f–ked up I was, I could have bought something else, like a condo or something, but I wanted a house again.
“So I was driving around in my car for a couple of weeks, I mean I was on drugs, I was thinking I’m gonna get the money to buy a $5 million home and I’m asking certain people for money.”
Sizemore eventually tried to get a loan from his friend and fellow actor Jack Nicholson.
“I said, ‘can you loan me $10 million?’,” and he said, “In a word, no.”
The actor also claims he is “coming up on four years sober” in the interview however a lawsuit filed against the star last October claims he ran over a stuntman because he “was intoxicated”.
Stuntman Steve de Castro from Sizemore’s show Shooter sued the actor last year for allegedly hitting him a car while under the influence.
The lawsuit claims Sizemore knew he was “intoxicated” before taking the wheel of the car and allegedly running de Castro over.
The incident occurred at a remote desert airport out of Los Angeles and his injuries were so severe he needed to be flown from the location.
Although the lawsuit failed to specifically list de Castro’s injuries, it did say they were “numerous” and “internal and external”. He also claimed the “preventable accident” left him with lasting injuries that have borderline ruined his career as a stuntman.