Jack Black felt 'whole for the first time' after trying psychedelic drugs at 13

During a recent appearance on the "Armchair Expert" podcast, Jack Black discussed getting addicted to cocaine as a teenager and how theater helped save his life.

"Once I got my bar mitzvah at 13 years old and became a man I was now ready to experiment with [drugs]," he told Shepard. "And also I was just getting into heavy metal music, and I don’t want to blame heavy metal music for my dark path, but it was definitely the rite of passage in a Beavis and Butthead way." "I was just getting into heavy metal music, and I don’t want to blame heavy metal music for my dark path, but it was definitely the rite of passage in a Beavis and Butthead way." Lori Bashian is an entertainment production assistant for Fox News Digital. 

He explained that as a child he felt "this is what it means to be a man," saying it was important "to go to the dark side to prove you can survive it," adding "the more dangerous" an activity was "the more attractive" it became to him.