Good friend Dan Akroyd spoke out to mark the occasion, talking about the comic’s attempts to stay clean and suggesting that being a pothead could have saved him.
It’s been 30 years since we lost comedian John Belushi to a drug overdose involving cocaine and heroin. On the anniversary of his death, the comic’s good friend and co-star Dan Akroyd spoke out in an exclusive interview with Showbiz Tonight about what might have been.
Belushi died on March 5, 1982, at just 33 years old. Akroyd believes that if his friend had lived, he would be a Broadway director today. (more…)
