Diff'erent Strokes Star Todd Bridges speaks from jail 1989

different stroke star todd bridges is speaking out from his jailhouse while awaiting trial she said she loved me she said she'd never lie to me she said she'd treat me great she said she'd always be my number one but she never said she put me in county jail but bridges did land in the los angeles county jail he has pleaded not guilty to a charge of first degree attempted murder he's being held without bond he and another man harvey duckett are charged with the shooting and knifing of a third man at this address in south central los angeles bridges says his road to prison was a straight line a line of cocaine see first you start with with somewhat sniffing and snoring that's an average start and people say well i'd never freebase wish they're wrong that's something i said when i first started starting it though i'd never freebase that's crazy so i snorted for a couple weeks pretty soon there's no more high in snorting it so you got to find another level which is freebase you start freebasing it it hides instantaneously hi you're high you're up there bridge's fall from grace came after a long successful run in the series different strokes he admits his problem was cocaine but he says hollywood itself was a big part of the cause 95 almost 98 i fought hollywood because hollywood tends to um they rise you up to be this person and then it is wow it's gone they don't want to use you they don't want to talk to you they don't know you ironically in the middle of all this trouble bridges has a new movie out a low-budget horror film called twice dead and in the odd logic of the movie business bridges thinks his incarceration is actually helping producers don't realize all this trouble that i'm in it's just going to make me more popular with the people i don't think they really realize that i think if i do a movie it's going to make people want to go see it all they have to do is link to move towards something like this but for now he has to deal with the charges he's facing and the life behind bars at one time i even thought about suicide being inside of here i think i can handle it so i got into god i got into premium lab and god brought me out of it basically but as far as you know as being on drugs i'm not on drugs anymore i'm a fighter now i'm fighting more and more every day not to go back to my drug addiction bridges goes to court tomorrow to ask for bail no trial date has been set greatest martial arts expert and the greatest asian star ever to come to the screen bruce lee combined imposing physical skill with a personal charisma to put the kung fu genre on the movie map worldwide but at the height of his popularity and in apparently perfect health bruce lee