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, who is 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 f**king cokehead, straight up. Not anymore, but that is my drug of choice – cocaine, bro, like Tony Montana!
‘You’re like, ‘I know this dude’s a f**king cokehead, but I want a little bump,
‘I would go do coke with the cokeheads, and they would be telling me, like, “Yo, chill, bro. … Wait a second. Give it like 15 minutes.” I couldn’t get enough of that s**t.’
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, who is 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 Tal – pictured with his parents in 2010
Hanks, who has been sober for almost two years, says of his past addiction: ‘It’s terrible. It eats away,. You just, like, wither away ’cause you can’t eat, you can’t sleep.’
Hanks and Wilson famously staged an intervention for their teenage son – with Chet previously revealing they had sent him to a ‘wilderness camp’ back in 2008 to help him deal with his addiction issues when he was still in high school.
Chet said he bears no ill-will towards his parents for taking the drastic step, adding: ‘I had been a really good, innocent kid my whole life. And then one day I just make that leap, take that step and it was like, ‘What the f**k.’ Where has my child gone.”
‘Smoking weed, getting drunk, and doing stupid s**t. It was regular, but it was such an abrupt change that it was concerning.’
He checked into rehab in 2015 after turning to crack to fuel his addiction, and in September 2022, marked one year of sobriety.
‘The decision was final. Never going back to that. Ever. This is just the beginning. Today can be the day that changes your life forever,’ he had typed in the caption of his post.
Chet has previously shared about his drug addiction, which he claimed to have battled since he was 16 years old.
‘I’ve been struggling with substance abuse since I was 16 years old. Finally at the age of 24 I decided to get some help,’ he shared on Instagram in 2014.
He said: ‘I would go do coke with the cokeheads, and they would be telling me, like, “Yo, chill, bro. … Wait a second. Give it like 15 minutes.” I couldn’t get enough of that s**t’
Hanks and Wilson famously staged an intervention for their teenage son – with Chet previously revealing they had sent him to a ‘wilderness camp’ back in 2008 to help him deal with his addiction issues when he was still in high school – pictured 2008
In another series of videos he shared that he was selling coke and smoking crack, before checking into rehab. ‘A couple months ago I was selling coke [and] doing coke until I couldn’t even snort it up my nose anymore because it was so clogged. I even smoked crack,’ he revealed.
The musician believes his struggles with addiction stem for his lifestyle in the public eye and his difficulty trying to ‘fit in’ and follow in his famous father’s footsteps.
After he went to rehab, Chet’s two-time Oscar winning father revealed in an Entertainment Tonight interview that he supported his son, ‘every step of the way.’
Last year Chet opened up on the Ivan Paychecks podcast, stating that his father, Tom, and mother, Rita, had sent him to a ‘wilderness camp’ back in 2008 to help him deal with his addiction issues when he was still in high school.
Chet said he bears no ill-will towards his parents for taking the drastic step – pictured with them and brother Truman in January
He had recounted the morning he had woken up to find men surrounding his bed, prepared to escort him to the Utah camp.
‘Bald heads, like military guys looking like bouncers, you know? And I’m like, ‘What the f***? What the f*** is going on?’ They’re like, ‘You’re coming with us, we could do this the easy way or the hard way,’ Chet had expressed.
Chet expressed that he believed both of his parents had been, ‘manipulated the whole time,’ due to their Hollywood and wealthy status and were used as ‘whales’ because they had the ‘resources to keep’ him at the camp for ‘long f***ing time.’
