addiction that gripped his life. two different law enforcement sources say the apartment where friends found hoffman sunday contained nearly 50 packets of heroin abled ace of spades and several empty pacts labeled ace of hearts and more than 20 used syringes and more. we have prescription drugs. all in his manhattan apartment. this appears that the 46-year-old father of three may not have had a prescription for all of those meds you see listed on your screen. in terms of his career, talk about a talent. he was in more than 50 films. he leaves ample evidence of why he is called one of the best actors of his generation. you have probably seen him in a film perhaps on the stage. less often hoffman has himself. here are excerpts from press interviews. he laughs and he is humble and in the first clip, he is i a bit in awe about what must have been
it s something that you try to exercise maximum vigilance towards maintaining your recovery but, you know, everybody is human and anybody can slip up, especially as you get older and you ve been clean for a long time, things come up, medical procedures that require narcotic pain medications, surgeries, things like that. those are things that in the recovery community people have a lot of anxiety about that and talk about it a lot in terms of as i get older, how will i handle those situations where i may need to take narcotics medically. sometimes they come into your life. our law enforcement sources have told us here at cnn that what they found inside hoffman s apartment was pretty shocking. close to 50 packets of heroin labeled, quote, ace of spades, several empty baggies labeled ace of hearts and 20 plus used syringes. what does that say to you?
reported to you about finding a needle in one of his arps we are hearing this, from law enforcement sources some have said besides finding the two bags containing what they believe to be her wioinheroin, found 8 additional small clear plastic bags that are usually the kind in which heroin is discovered and those were also found in the apartment. it is unfortunate to pass on this as well, but you know that they found the needles in his left arm and he was clothed in the bathroom. they say that they are trying to check for more information about how he acquired the drugs but the various bags were stamped with ace of hearts and ace of
he was a talented actor. he was considered to be a nice guy and blended in. he was collaborating with him on some work and discovered the actor in his bathroom with a needle in his left arm and he was dressed in a t-shirt and shorts. police were called to the scene right away however, the actor was found to be dead on the scene. authorities found two bags believes to contain heroine and small plastic bags some labeled with ace of hearts and ace of spades. apparently our sources tell us that the long time girlfriend who is the mother of their
one of the weirdest almost pop cultury small details about how the bush administration started the iraq war was that deck of cards. you remember that? saddam of course with the ace of spades. the ace of cubs was kuse. the ace of hearts was as son ude. the decks go for about $1.20 on ebay right now. the pentagon made the deck of cards because apparently they had at least 52 names on their most wanted list at the start of the iraq war. well, we ve also got a most wanted list for the war that we re not officially fighting right now in pakistan. officially pakistan is our ally and they re a sovereign country and they re against us using our armed flying robots, those pilotless drones to shoot missiles into their territory. unofficially the u.s. is said to have a most wanted list, an imaginary deck of cards if you will, of about 20 names of al qaeda and taliban leaders they are trying to kill in pakistan. and i say kill deliberately, not