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Julia Roberts has opened up about the "hardest drug" she has ever done in a candid new chat.
The Hollywood icon appeared on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as part of her current promo trail for new Netflix movie Leave The World Behind. Julia, 56, took part in the Plead The Fifth segment of the show where guests have to give a response for at least two out of three questions.
Host Andy asked: “Julia Roberts, what is the hardest drug you’ve ever tried?” The star then hesitated as she replied: “Mushrooms.”
Andy probed further asking if it was a “positive experience.” Julia then nodded and laughed as she responded: “Yeah, it was nice. Kids, don’t try it at home!”
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Julia has admitted to doing mushrooms (Variety via Getty Images)
Julia is busy promoting her new movie Leave The World Behind (Variety via Getty Images)The Oscar winner didn't give any further details on when it was she had tried the drug or who she was with at the time - if anyone. The Pretty Woman star previously had to deny rumours of drug addiction more than 30 years ago when she cancelled her wedding to Kiefer Sutherland just three days before they were due to tie the knot.
At the time Julia was subsequently hospitalised for five days suffering from the flu causing a barrage of rumours that she “had a problem with drugs.” Talking back in 1991 Julia told Entertainment Weekly: “This started, I can only assume, because I was so thin. And it’s just absurd, you know. I don’t know how anybody who would do drugs could function.
"I don’t - nor have I ever done drugs - and I guess it’s boring to be sort of a young actor in Hollywood and not have a drug problem. Well, then, I’m boring, and that’s cool with me, because I’ve got clear skin and clean arms, and I’m just thin. Period. The end. Quit picking on me, you know."
Julia has previously denied using drugs (AFP via Getty Images)At the time Julia was adamant that she never used “any drugs” and said the rumours were “absurd and frustrating.” She has also spoke about drug use when she starred in 2018 movie Ben Is Back which tells the story of someone battling an opioid addiction.
Speaking at the Toronto International Film Festival she called the vaping trend “hideous” as she outlined how her family tackle the topic of drugs. She said: “Fortunately, the five of us are super close and at dinner, which we have just about every night the five of us are together, it becomes part of the family conversation: ‘Do you know what this is?’ ‘Have you ever heard about this?’ ‘Well, have you ever done that?’ It’s about figuring it out together.”
She elaborated that she tries to “put her sort of personal disgust” about drugs to the side so she is “be able to have a conversation” with her children. Julia and her husband of 21 years Danny Moder are parents to twins Hazel and Phinnaeus, 19, and son Henry, 16.