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Robin Williams' classic 1980 Popeye film was rampant with cocaine use as wild way it arrived on set is revealed

The 83-year-old mogul - who recently came out as gay 50 years after he began seeing Diane Von Furstenberg - was CEO of the film's studio Paramount Pictures for a decade.

Meanwhile, years ago friends of Williams recalled his scarily erratic behavior at the height of his cocaine addiction – revealing that that the late actor couldn't go on stage and preform without drugs. Williams' life was put under the microscope in the second season of Vice TV's Dark Side of Comedy, which aired in October 2023, and his friends have shared jaw-dropping anecdotes from his battle with narcotics. Director Howard Storm detailed Williams' cocaine use in the biography Robin, by New York Times reporter Dave Itzkoff, revealing that he would show up to set looking like 'a wreck'.

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