The 1981 movie Richard Dreyfuss was so high he can’t remember making: “I was loaded all the time”

Richard Dreyfuss says he cannot remember making the 1981 film *Whose Life Is It Anyway?* because he was heavily using drugs and alcohol at the time. His account highlights how addiction affected his work during a period of intense fame and left him unable to assess or take credit for the film.

Dreyfuss played a man left almost completely paralysed who argues for his right to die against a doctor, played by John Cassavetes. He said the film was “a black hole” in his memory and described the experience as something he was ashamed of. After passing out and crashing his car in 1982, he sought help, took a three-year break from films, and later returned to acting, earning a Best Actor Oscar nomination for *Mr Holland’s Opus* in 1996.