Why Cary Grant Took LSD 100 Times | His DNA Revealed a Family Secret

For four years, Cary Grant — the star of North by Northwest, To Catch a Thief, and An Affair to Remember — took LSD over one hundred times under a doctor's supervision. He went public with it. He told Look magazine and Good Housekeeping it had saved his life. But almost nobody knew what he was actually trying to treat. This is the story of the lie that lasted twenty years. When Cary Grant was nine, his father told him his mother had died. The truth was that she'd been committed to the Bristol Lunatic Asylum on a single word — "mania" — on her husband's testimony alone. Cary spent two decades grieving a woman who was very much alive. When he finally learned the truth at thirty, the wound didn't close. It opened. This is how that wound brought one of Hollywood's most charming men to one hundred sessions of psychedelic therapy in a small Beverly Hills clinic. And how, indirectly, it sparked the American counterculture's love affair with LSD. #CaryGrant · #OldHollywood · #ClassicHollywood · #HollywoodHistory · #GoldenAgeHollywood · #HollywoodSecrets · #ArchieLeach · #VintageCelebrities · #HollywoodScandal · #CelebrityFamilySecrets · #HollywoodMystery Sources: the documentary Becoming Cary Grant, contemporary interviews in Look and Good Housekeeping, and the Bristol Lunatic Asylum admissions records.