Alex Trebek admitted that he has dabbled in recreational drugs, including once taking “four to five hash brownies.”
The confession comes through in her new book, The answer is … Reflections on my life. In the memoirs, the Danger! The host admits that he smoked marijuana as a possible cure for arthritis and that he once tried cocaine, but did not like the way it burned his nose.
Meanwhile, the history of the brownie dates back to one night in the 1970s. “I went to this party in Malibu and they had potato croquettes,” Trebek recalled during a 2015 interview with Howard Stern. “I love chocolate and I ate four or five potato croquettes. The party was Friday night, I didn’t leave his house until Monday morning. Without exaggeration!
The answer is… It provides many details about the life and career of Trebek, the presenter of long-running game shows that has been kept relatively private while off screen. The memoirs recount Trebek’s childhood as a class clown, his brief stint at the military university, and later his foray into Canadian radio.
In the early 1970s, he came to the United States as the host of the game show. The Wizard of Odds. It would bounce through various other programs, including High stakes, Double challenge, Battlestars and The $ 128,000 question – before landing with Danger! in 1984. Since then, he held the position of host in the classic question-and-answer contest.
Trebek was diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer in 2019. In a recent video update, the television personality noted that his treatment “is paying off, although I am very fatigued.” My numbers are good. I feel very good.”
Even if Danger! Currently on hold due to the coronavirus pandemic, the host hopes to return to the studio to record new episodes soon. “It is a quality program, and I think I do a good job of hosting,” Trebek told the New York Times. “When I start to slip, I will stop housing.”
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