Michael K. Williams was high on drugs meeting Obama, posthumous memoir reveals
02.08.2022 - 21:57
/ nypost.com
an accidental overdose last September at 54 — made the startling admission in a memoir written prior to his passing. The tome, “Scenes From My Life,” is set to be published later this month.In an excerpt obtained by Daily Mail, Williams recalls being invited to attend an event in Harrisburg, Virginia, by Obama — who has famously declared that “The Wire” is his favorite show. However, when he arrived at the event, Williams was so high on cocaine that he had lockjaw and was unable to speak properly.“I couldn’t even put my words together,” he writes in the memoir.
“I was such a mess. Obama shook my hand and I could see it in his eyes. He was like: ‘I don’t got time for this.’ He kept it moving.
I was not in my right mind. I told people I was nervous but actually I had lockjaw from too much cocaine.”At the time, Obama was the junior senator from Illinois and was making a run for president. Williams said he was so preoccupied with drugs that he was “clueless” as to who the politician was.
“I was embarrassed [about] how checked out I was about issues affecting my country,” he candidly confesses in the memoir. The anecdote is one of many shared by the star in the candid new book, which explores his decades-long battle with drugs. Williams developed a drug habit after his turbulent childhood in New York, which was punctuated by fights between his philandering father and his devout Christian mother.
He claims that, in one instance, his mother pulled a pistol on his father after he spent bill money on prostitutes. Williams heartbreakingly writes that he was left scarred as a young child after his mom told him that he had a “touch of evil and had disappointed God.”“I took that into my heart,” the actor vulnerably explains. “And the
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