Oscar winning, 63-year-old British actress and frequent nudist Helen Mirren has admitted to GQ magazine that she used to dabble in marijuana and cocaine when she was younger.

She admits to loving the drug cocaine, but said that she stopped taking the drug after learning that Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie – the Butcher of Lyon, was hiding in South America and living off the proceeds of being a cocaine baron.

Mirren is quoted as saying:

“I loved coke. I never did a lot, just a little bit at parties.  But what ended it for me was when they caught (Nazi war criminal) Klaus Barbie, the Butcher of Lyon, in the early 80s. He was hiding in South America and living off the proceeds 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 direct route to this … horrible man in South America.”

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