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Cary Grant was coerced into dropping acid as part of a controversial therapy, to get over his issues with women: Actor dropped LSD 100 times because he struggled to ‘connect’ with females and had a fraught relationship with his mother
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According to a new Showtime documentary, the actor was distraught over his inability to form relationships with women as well as the distant relationship he had with his mother.
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In Becoming Cary Grant, filmmakers detail how the Hollywood star, who failed to achieve inner peace with hypnosis and yoga, claimed to find it with LSD.
- Actor Cary Grant was introduced to Dr. Mortimer Hartman by wife Betsy Drake
- Hartman was prescribing LSD, which his wife took ‘to cure herself of alcoholism’
- Grant submitted to 100 LSD therapy sessions over the course of three years
- He praised the drug in numerous interviews, saying: ‘At last I am close to happiness’
- The therapy sessions were to treat his ‘lack of connection’ with women and anxious relationship with his mother
- At age nine, Grant’s mother disappeared; the actor learned 20 years later that his father had committed her to a psychiatric hospital
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