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    Dyan Cannon Claims Cary Grant Used LSD As 'A Gateway To God'

    Access Hollywood – Mon, Oct 17, 2011

    Dyan Cannon is speaking out about her marriage to Cary Grant, including claims that the late actor used LSD as a way to cope with his childhood pain and relationship problems.

    "I wanted it to be a helpful book, a hopeful book, an inspirational book. Something that would help people," Dyan, who was married to the Hollywood legend from 1965 to 1968, said on Monday's Access Hollywood Live.

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    "I don't rag on him. It's not a vendetta," she said of her new book, "Dear Cary: My Life with Cary Grant," available now in bookstores.

    Dyan, who was Cary's fourth wife, claims a rough childhood, which included estrangement from his father and also being told his mother had died when she was actually alive, led to the actor using drugs.

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    "He had such a traumatic childhood. It was horrible... his was just horrendous and he never really dealt with those things," she told Billy Bush and Kit Hoover. "He tried to, that's the reason he tried LSD. It wasn't for a... party. He thought it was a gateway to God, he really did. I think he thought it was a gateway to peace inside himself and I think with all the wealth and fame he embraced and that embraced him, he couldn't find it, he couldn't land on it."

    Dyan said her marriage to the actor, who was 33 years her senior, eventually began to unravel and Cary attempted to ease their problems with drugs.

    "When our marriage started to go south - and we had a beautiful daughter - he told me many times that I was the only woman he trusted enough to have a child with," she explained. "He said, 'LSD will help us,'... I wanted to make him happy more than anything else in life and it's good to love someone and it's good to try make them happy, but if you have to go against something that is intrinsically against your nature, that you know you shouldn't do in order to please someone, it's death."

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    Despite their short marriage and relationship woes, Dyan fondly looks back on her time with the actor, referring to him as "delicious."

    "I've never known romance like that," she told Billy and Kit. "He was as close to perfect as it gets, but he had stuff to work through like we all do. And what we tend to do, is that we tend to make gods out of people... he was a yummy, awesome, delicious human being."

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    18 comments

    • BMS
      BMS  •  7 mths ago
      God bless you Albert Hoffman for discovering LSD. What an amazing bicycle trip that must have been!
    • Mark
      Mark  •  7 mths ago
      idiots
      • matt b
        matt b 7 mths ago
        nice contribution... not...
    • farfal
      farfal  •  7 mths ago
      Did someone say...swallow?
    • Mark
      Mark  •  Martinsville, United States  •  7 mths ago
      She looks like she had one hit of acid too many herself. Whats with the facelift? Her face looks like a stretched out apple doll
    • joechgo
      joechgo  •  7 mths ago
      I think it's a shame when stuff is written about a person when they can no longer speak for him or her self. I could have lived forever not knowing this particular news about Mr. Grant.
    • ken
      ken  •  7 mths ago
      His only child is by her couldn't she get $ from her for a competent plastic surgeon?
    • Diva4gems
      Diva4gems  •  Sunnyvale, United States  •  7 mths ago
      What the hell was Dyan Cannon thinking? It's Jocelyn Wildenstein the Cat Woman in NY!! OMG! Dyan who? Don't recognize her. If she updated her long 1960's hair (cut and style it) and maybe did a little botox or restalyne to the face, she'd be ok. She looks horrendous! Her surgery is a hack job. Ladies & gentlemen: live & learn. Age gracefully. This is not the way to go.
    • American Spirit
      American Spirit  •  7 mths ago
      that's because her crotch was a gateway to hell...
    • james
      james  •  Palm Springs, United States  •  7 mths ago
      I think its a lot of #$%$ telling us that he did drugs because of his messed up childhood...........He did drugs because he was curious.
    • Tinacat
      Tinacat  •  7 mths ago
      PleaSE...writing a book now is for money or publicity, we all have known for sometime Cary did LSD...he had class regardless and yes he was yummy (whatever) I am a huge fan of his and have seen all his movies all the way back to the first one and they were all an adventure done with style and class. She was married to him for a whopping 3 or 4 years and they divorced...sorry but I am not going for the "helpful book" quote. How does this help anyone but Dyan Cannon? I wonder if there is anything in there that all his true fans don't know...let Mr. Grant REST IN PEACE...
    • nickm
      nickm  •  7 mths ago
      Who is dyan cannon? whoever she is, she looks like crap. maybe her surgeon was on lsd.
      • Izzy
        Izzy 7 mths ago
        You must be young. In my day, the days before every woman had breast implants... she and Raquel Welch were the fuel for millions of male fantasies. In more recent times, Dyan was a regular on Ally Mcbiel.
    • E
      E  •  7 mths ago
      Old news there was an article in Vanity Fair2-3 years ago, about his and other actors use of LSD, she must need money
    • Miriam
      Miriam  •  7 mths ago
      I guess dropping acid keep you young
    • .
      .  •  7 mths ago
      Holy Crap ! Just look at what that Plastic Surgeon did to her face !
    • Maquis
      Maquis  •  7 mths ago
      Still an awesome lady!! Such class to speak so well of an ex!
    • AGRO
      AGRO  •  7 mths ago
      Damm...! she still look's hot and sexy.
      • james
        james 7 mths ago
        Hey Agro-------------Are you blind?
    • .
      .  •  7 mths ago
      he was a yummy, awesome, delicious human being."

      Human Being, or Pot Brownie ?
    • Your day is coming
      Your day is coming  •  7 mths ago
      No wonder he trusted her; that's a great way to express it and be! No-one has it all...even him....turning to LSD....I'd rather never do that and be a nobody. She sounds like a great person for refusing it and explaining what it really all meant.
      • matt b
        matt b 7 mths ago
        self-righteous d-bag.
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