On March 5, 1982, 'Saturday Night Live' star John Belushi shot a “speedball,' a mixture of coke and heroin. He was found dead at the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles.
When John Belushi first walked on the set of 'National Lampoon’s Animal House,' Tim Matheson was expecting a 'colossal coked-up prima donna.' 'Many people thought, ‘He’s going to be like he was on ‘Saturday Night Live’ – that big, bold, outrageous character,' Matheson told Fox News Digital.
Still, Matheson told Fox News Digital that when cameras stopped rolling, Belushi 'was walking on the edge all the time.' ''Animal House’ was a huge hit,' said Matheson. 'I had to go to Chicago for a weekend to promote the film… John showed me Chicago. I’d never seen Chicago. He was the favorite son of Chicago. He was the biggest star out of Chicago at the time.
In his book, Matheson wrote that Belushi 'didn’t have a prayer.' He noted that the comic had 'two enormous bodyguards whose primary job was to keep people from giving him drugs.' Matheson told Fox News Digital he still remembers the last time he saw his pal. 'It was between 1980-1981,' he said. 'I just remember seeing him and Dan Aykroyd enjoying themselves. That was a more somber moment – a sober moment too.
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