‘Animal House’ star Tim Matheson says he’s ‘lucky’ he didn’t become a coke addict in the ‘70s

Tim Matheson says he’s “lucky” he didn’t fall into hardcore drug use and become another Hollywood casualty.

In his recently released memoir, “Damn Glad to Meet You,” Matheson, 76, writes that cocaine was rampant in Hollywood during the ’70s and early ’80s. He admits to partaking but never in the excesses of some contemporaries and credits some of it to being lower down in the totem pole.

“I wasn’t the star,” he tells Page Six in an exclusive interview. “I was a working actor and I went from job to job.”

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