Dame Helen Mirren has admitted that she loved snorting cocain when she was younger.
The actress admits that she only knocked her coke habit on the mind because she realised she was financing evil criminals.
Dame Helen says she ill-used to claim coke when she was younger in the seventies and 1980s but quit because notorious Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie was holed up in South America living off the proceeds of selling the drug to other countries.
"(I used to do) a bit of cocaine. I loved nose candy. I ne'er did a lot, just a small bit at parties," she tells GQ.
"But what all over it for me was when they caught Klaus Barbie, the Butcher of Lyon, in the early eighties .He was hiding in South America and living off the takings of being a cocaine baron.�
"And I read that in the paper, and all the cards fell into place and I saw how my little sniff of cocaine at a party had an absolute address route to this f**king horrible man in South America,� the 63-year-old adds.
"And from that day I never touched cocaine again. Until that moment I had ne'er grasped the full horrible structure of what brings coke to our parties in Britain."
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