Alec Baldwin Has Looked Into The Face Of Addiction
Before Vh1, or Dr. Drew Presents Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew Starring Dr. Drew, or the new Dr. Drew's House Of Pain (Dr. Drew Pinsky is the Tyler Perry of addiction medicine), drug addicted pseudo-celebrities looking to quit had to get clean without the extra self-exploitation high that a VH1 rehab reality show can give (aka Fameadone). Some went cold turkey; some went to non-televised rehab; and some—well, really just Alec Baldwin—went to the video arcade.
From The NY Post:
Baldwin would end the night at an arcade warehouse playing "Galaga."
"I would play video games from, like, 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., and I would wind down. Then I'd go home and go to bed," Baldwin writes. "This was the only way I could go 'beta' and go into that state I needed to be, where I could calm down and take my mind off everything. I didn't want to see anybody, talk to anybody, deal with anybody."