Tim Matheson says he is fortunate he by no means obtained too huge into cocaine … saying he performed exhausting — however, he apprehensive an excessive amount of about how the white stuff would have an effect on his work to get addicted.

The star of “Animal Home” spoke with Web page Six about his new memoir, “Rattling Glad to Meet You” — a reference to a line his character says to potential pledges within the iconic school fraternity movie — and, he explains that as a result of he was a working actor, he was afraid of overindulging in coke.

Mainly, Matheson says he wasn’t a star and lived paycheck to paycheck … and, he was acutely conscious he might lose his earnings until he continued to carry out properly.

That stated, Tim says he did not fully shun the stuff … however, he did not use it as a lot as a few of his contemporaries who have been additional up the callsheet.

A kind of contemporaries … John Belushi — who died of an overdose of cocaine and heroin in 1982 at simply 33 years outdated.

Matheson says a part of the issue is that everybody in his era was saying cocaine wasn’t all that unhealthy for you … clearly, not the case.

TM’s gone on to have fairly the profession since “Animal Home” … taking components in “The West Wing,” “Hart of Dixie,” “Fletch,” “Batman: The Animated Sequence,” “Black Sheep,” “Van Wilder,” and “Virgin River.”