Idris Elba Reveals Drug Dealer Past
Idris Elba covers the October issue of GQ and offers some revealing glimpses into his. In it, he talks about his drug dealer past and raising a son that he later found wasn’t his.
Idris Elba on his drug selling past:
Yeah, it was, because I was running with cats. I mean, I was DJ’ing, but I was also pushing bags of weed; I was doing my work. I had to. I know that sounds corny, but this is the truth.” He says he’d sell drugs at Carolines, and meanwhile all these successful guys would come through: D. L. Hughley, Dave Chappelle. “All those black comedians, they knew me as a doorman.
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Check out the GQ behind-the-scenes video below.