The Peculiar Truth about Cary Grant on LSD

<ul> <li>He was born Archibald Leach in Bristol, England in 1904 but became world famous as film icon Cary Grant. Throughout the 20th Century few movie stars achieved his level of worldwide fame.</li> <li>His mother died when he was age nine, and that may have contributed to issues with women for the rest of his life.</li> <li>In 1949, after two unsuccessful marriages that ended in divorces, Cary Grant married Betsy Drake who co-starred with him in two movies. She was 26; he was 45.</li> <li>Grant’s best man at the wedding: Howard Hughes.</li> <li>Betsy remained his wife longer than any other woman.</li> <li>During the 1950s, despite decades of unparalleled fame and fortune, Grant wondered whether his career was over. He was depressed.</li> <li>He had his wife Betsy removed as his co-star for the 1958 movie Houseboat in favor of Sophia Loren, with whom he’d been having a secret affair… despite the fact that Betsy had written the first draft of Houseboat’s script.</li> <li>Distraught and separated from her husband, Betsy saw a Beverly Hills psychiatrist and began receiving his novel drug treatment.</li> <li>Thanks to Betsy, Cary began seeing the shrink, too, and they became two of the earliest adopters of LSD therapy.</li> <li>A Swiss lab scientist named Albert Hoffman had created lysergic acid diethylamide in 1938. For decades, much has been written and discussed about the drug and its possible uses in treating a number of psychiatric issues.</li> </ul> <a href="https://medium.com/the-peculiar-truth/the-peculiar-truth-about-cary-grant-on-lsd-f18901bca8dc">Read More</a>