Sylvester Stallone’s Stunt Double, Billy Moore, Recalls Bizarre Hollywood Story

Now, fast forward a couple of years later… Moore is in prison for drugs. He spent enough time on a glamorous Hollywood set that he slowly slipped back into drug use and he ended up in Bangkwang Central Prison, which is where his bizarre and disturbing story begins.

“It was a nightmare… When you go into Bangkok in shackles that weight three kilos on your ankles welded on, put in a cell with 80 people with a prison which has got 20,000 inmates in total…Sleeping next to people who have died, they couldn’t move the bodies in the cells through security.”

Even while in prison, he was able to manipulate nurses and doctors to give him drugs. “I was using opium drugs to deal with the pain, so when I was in prison I was manipulating the nurses and doctors to give me drugs and more drugs trying to escape reality and not face the day.”

During his time in prison, he crafted a book called A Prayer Before Dawn in which he documented his days while in prison. When he was finally released from prison, he admits he had huge culture shock after being in Thailand for so long and then going back to the UK. Moore found refuge and comfort in writing his book.

His book eventually turned into a major motion picture movie. Moore admits that standing on a red carpet in Cannes Film Festival was a bit of a weird and surreal experience for him. Everything pretty much turned up for him. He was not drinking or smoking and has been in remission from stage three non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma for two years running. He now uses his life experiences to help others, including his 41-year-old brother with autism. He has also finished his second book called Surrender From The Heart.

“It was quite strange, the only attention I ever got was from drug dealers, and prison officers, or prisoners you know it was all negative – and now people are saying “you’re inspiring what you’ve been through.”’

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Check out the video below of an interview with Billy Moore where he talks about his time in a Thai prison: