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Philip Seymour Hoffman's close friend says star's 'ghost' visited him the night he died - and reveals a secret blackmail plot haunted the actor
Just a few months before his death from a heroin overdose, Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman was blackmailed by a website which threatened to expose his most intimate secrets.
Just a few months before his death from a heroin overdose, Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman was blackmailed by a news website, which threatened to expose his most intimate drug abuse secrets. In his new book Feh (a Yiddish word that means ‘yuck’), Shalom Auslander reveals the outlet had bought secretly recorded tapes of Hoffman talking frankly about his addictions, and planned to publish them unless he gave an exclusive interview. ‘Still, over the next weeks and months, John [Cameron Mitchell, the director] somehow managed to film something special, something dark and funny and moving about the struggle for true happiness in a shallow, materialistic world.’
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