{"id":209872,"date":"2025-12-08T20:31:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T20:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/08\/harry-hamlin-husband-of-lisa-rinna-says-he-was-forced-to-smoke-pcp-in-prison\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T20:31:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T20:31:01","slug":"harry-hamlin-husband-of-lisa-rinna-says-he-was-forced-to-smoke-pcp-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/08\/harry-hamlin-husband-of-lisa-rinna-says-he-was-forced-to-smoke-pcp-in-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Hamlin, Husband of Lisa Rinna, Says He Was &#8216;Forced&#8217; to Smoke PCP In Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Harry Hamlin has been a distinguished television actor for several decades now.<\/p>\n<p>(Although if you prefer reality shows to scripted series, you might know him better as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2025\/04\/lisa-rinna-postpartum-threats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the husband of Bravo-lebrity Lisa Rinna<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>But long before he amassed a devoted fan base through his work on shows like <em>LA Law<\/em> and <em>Mad Men<\/em>, Hamlin was a college student at Berkley.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><noscript><\/noscript><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-1454740450-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Harry Hamlin and Lisa Rinna attend the 2023 Palm Springs International Film Festival: World Premiere of &quot;80 For Brady&quot; at Palm Springs High School on January 06, 2023 in Palm Springs, California.\" class=\"wp-image-542324 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-1454740450-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-1454740450-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-1454740450-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-1454740450-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-1454740450-960x640.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-1454740450-1080x720.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-1454740450-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-1454740450-scaled.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Harry Hamlin and Lisa Rinna attend the 2023 Palm Springs International Film Festival: World Premiere of \u201c80 For Brady\u201d at Palm Springs High School on January 06, 2023 in Palm Springs, California.<span class=\"image-caption-credit\"> (Photo by David Crotty\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Like so many college kids of the 1970s, the aspiring thespian dabbled in illicit substances.<\/p>\n<p>And on at least one occasion, his experiments took him down a very dangerous path.<\/p>\n<p>Hamlin opened up about the incident during a recent appearance on Rinna\u2019s \u201cLet\u2019s Not Talk About the Husband\u201d podcast.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, the show is rather inaccurately titled, because Lisa\u2019s husband talked about himself extensively during a conversation that started with the mention of the controversial drug ketamine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have never had ketamine, but \u2026 in jail, I was forced to smoke PCP,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/toofab.com\/2025\/12\/06\/harry-hamlin-pcp-jail\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hamlin remarked<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[An] upperclassman had given me 25 pills and about a 25th of an ounce of grass, and that was my payment for taking these pills,\u201d the 74-year-old continued, adding:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"722\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-181598009-722x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Actors Harry Hamlin and Lisa Rinna arrive at the 65th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards held at Nokia Theatre L.A. Live on September 22, 2013 in Los Angeles, California.  \" class=\"wp-image-542325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-181598009-722x1024.jpg 722w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-181598009-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-181598009-768x1089.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-181598009-1445x2048.jpg 1445w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-181598009-677x960.jpg 677w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-181598009-762x1080.jpg 762w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-181598009-847x1200.jpg 847w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-181598009-scaled.jpg 1806w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\"\/><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"722\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-181598009-722x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Actors Harry Hamlin and Lisa Rinna arrive at the 65th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards held at Nokia Theatre L.A. Live on September 22, 2013 in Los Angeles, California.  \" class=\"wp-image-542325 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-181598009-722x1024.jpg 722w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-181598009-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-181598009-768x1089.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-181598009-1445x2048.jpg 1445w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-181598009-677x960.jpg 677w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-181598009-762x1080.jpg 762w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-181598009-847x1200.jpg 847w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-181598009-scaled.jpg 1806w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-181598009-scaled.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Actors Harry Hamlin and Lisa Rinna arrive at the 65th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards held at Nokia Theatre L.A. Live on September 22, 2013 in Los Angeles, California.  <span class=\"image-caption-credit\"> (Photo by Frazer Harrison\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIt was exam season, and I was at Berkley. And my upperclassmen in the fraternity house I was living in came to me before I was going down to LA for Thanksgiving, which is around exam time. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd he said, \u2018Take these pills down to another house at USC. They need these for their exams. So I take them down, and they didn\u2019t want the pills \u2026 so I had to take them back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you think that was very smart?\u201d Rinna asked, prompting Hamlin to admit, \u201cObviously not because I ended up in jail.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly, it wasn\u2019t the pills that landed Hamlin in legal trouble but the \u201ctiny quantity of marijuana\u201d he had on his person.<\/p>\n<p>Hamlin was sentenced to 18 days behind bars, but as a college student, he was permitted to serve his sentence on weekends.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"725\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-927325034-1024x725.jpg\" alt=\"Harry Hamlin and Lisa Rinna attend the 26th annual Elton John AIDS Foundation's Academy Awards Viewing Party at The City of West Hollywood Park on March 4, 2018 in West Hollywood, California. \" class=\"wp-image-542326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-927325034-1024x725.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-927325034-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-927325034-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-927325034-2048x1450.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-927325034-960x680.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-927325034-1080x765.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-927325034-1200x850.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\"\/><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"725\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-927325034-1024x725.jpg\" alt=\"Harry Hamlin and Lisa Rinna attend the 26th annual Elton John AIDS Foundation's Academy Awards Viewing Party at The City of West Hollywood Park on March 4, 2018 in West Hollywood, California. \" class=\"wp-image-542326 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-927325034-1024x725.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-927325034-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-927325034-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-927325034-2048x1450.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-927325034-960x680.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-927325034-1080x765.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-927325034-1200x850.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-927325034-scaled.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Harry Hamlin and Lisa Rinna attend the 26th annual Elton John AIDS Foundation\u2019s Academy Awards Viewing Party at The City of West Hollywood Park on March 4, 2018 in West Hollywood, California. <span class=\"image-caption-credit\"> (Photo by Rodin Eckenroth\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It was on his first weekend that Harry saw a group of inmates passing around a cigarette as though it were a joint. Eventually, one of the inmates insisted that he join in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said, \u2018Have some of this!&#8217;\u201d Hamlin recalled, \u201cSo that\u2019s how I was forced to have the PCP.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomebody had brought in a little sack of rolling tobacco, and they had soaked it in PCP \u2026 so they were smoking it, and there was no odor. But they were high as kites,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was so stoned because the guy forced me to take three or four hits of it, right?\u201d Hamli said. \u201cAnd I was completely messed up after I had that. So that\u2019s my PCP story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And what a story it is!<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, aspects of that particular tale are downright horrifying, but our main takeaway here is that Harry Hamlin is one of those guys who has an interesting story on just about any topic.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2025\/12\/harry-hamlin-husband-of-lisa-rinna-says-he-was-forced-to-smoke-pcp-in-prison\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: 3 minutes Harry Hamlin has been a distinguished television actor for several decades now. (Although if you prefer reality shows to scripted series, you might know him better as the husband of Bravo-lebrity Lisa Rinna.) But long before he amassed a devoted fan base through his work on shows like LA Law and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":209873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-209872","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}