Tim Matheson says he's lucky he never got too big into cocaine ... saying he played hard -- but, he worried too much about how the white stuff would affect his work to get addicted. Basically, Matheson says he wasn't a star and lived paycheck to paycheck ... and, he was acutely aware he could lose his income unless he continued to perform well. That said, Tim says he didn't completely shun the stuff ... but, he didn't use it as much as some of his contemporaries who were further up the callsheet. One of those contemporaries ... John Belushi -- who died of an overdose of cocaine and heroin in 1982 at just 33 years old. Matheson says part of the problem is that everyone in his generation was saying cocaine wasn't all that bad for you ... obviously, not the case.

Source: The Star November 18, 2024 05:14 UTC