Chet Hanks has opened up about the severity of his past drug addiction and the impact it had on his famous parents, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson.
Chet, 33, the eldest son of Hollywood icons Hanks and Wilson, both 67, compared himself to Al Pacino’s Scarface character Tony Montana when discussing his past cocaine addiction on Bradley Martyn’s Raw Talk.
The actor said: ‘I’m a fucking cokehead, straight up.’ Not anymore, but that’s my drug of choice: cocaine, bro, like Tony Montana!
“You’re like, ‘I know this guy is a fucking cocaine addict, but I want a little push,
‘I’d go do coke with the cokeheads and they’d be like, ‘Easy, bro… Wait a second. Give it like 15 minutes.’ I couldn’t get enough of that shit.’
Chet Hanks has opened up about the severity of his past drug addiction and the impact it had on his famous parents, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson.
Chet, 33, the eldest son of Hollywood icons Hanks and Wilson, both 67, compared himself to Al Pacino’s Scarface character Tony Montana when he spoke about his past cocaine addiction in Bradley Martyn’s Raw Tal – pictured with his parents in 2010
Hanks, who has been sober for nearly two years, says of his past addiction: ‘It’s terrible. It eats away at you. You wither away because you can’t eat or sleep.
Hanks and Wilson famously staged an intervention for their teenage son (Chet had previously revealed that he had been sent to “wilderness camp” in 2008 to help him deal with his addiction issues while he was still in high school).
Chet said he holds no grudges toward his parents for taking such a drastic step, adding, “I’d been a very good, innocent kid my whole life. And then one day I took that leap, I took that step, and I thought, ‘What the hell? ‘ Where has my son gone?”
‘Smoking marijuana, getting drunk and doing stupid things. It was a regular thing, but it was such an abrupt change that it worried me.’
He entered rehab in 2015 after turning to crack cocaine to feed his addiction, and In September 2022, it was one year of sobriety.
“The decision was final. I will never go back to that. Never. This is just the beginning. Today could be the day that changes your life forever,” she wrote in the caption of her post.
Chet has previously spoken out about his drug addiction, which he claimed to have struggled with since he was 16.
“I’ve been struggling with substance abuse since I was 16. Finally, at age 24, I decided to seek help,” she shared on Instagram in 2014.
He said: “I would go do cocaine with the cocaine addicts and they would be like, ‘Easy there, bro… Wait a second. Give it like 15 minutes.’ I couldn’t get enough of that shit.”
Hanks and Wilson famously staged an intervention for their teenage son (Chet had previously revealed that he had been sent to “wilderness camp” in 2008 to help him deal with his addiction issues while he was still in high school). Photo: 2008.
In another series of videos, she shared that she was selling cocaine and smoking crack cocaine before entering rehab. “A couple of months ago I was selling cocaine and doing cocaine until I couldn’t even snort it through my nose because it was so blocked up. I was even smoking crack,” she revealed.
The musician believes his addiction issues are due to his lifestyle in the public eye and his difficulty trying to “fit in” and follow in his famous father’s footsteps.
After going to rehab, Chet’s two-time Oscar-winning father revealed in an interview with Entertainment Tonight that he supported his son “every step of the way.”
Last year, Chet spoke on the Ivan Paychecks podcast and said that his father, Tom, and mother, Rita, had sent him to a “wilderness camp” in 2008 to help him deal with his addiction issues when he was still in high school.
Chet said he holds no grudges toward his parents for taking such a drastic measure (pictured here with them and his brother Truman in January).
He had told of the morning he woke up to find men surrounding his bed, ready to escort him to the Utah camp.
‘Bald heads, like military guys looking like bouncers, you know? And I’m like, ‘What the hell? What the hell is going on?’ They’re like, ‘You’re coming with us, we can do this the easy way or the hard way,’ Chet said.
Chet expressed that he believed his parents had been “manipulated all the time” because of their Hollywood and wealthy status and were used as “whales” because they had the “resources to keep him” at camp for “a long time.”