Esther Williams Dropped Acid
Two things I thought about when I heard that Esther Williams had died: her saying in her 1999 autobiography that her he-man boyfriend Jeff Chandler liked to wear a dress and high heels. And that she was inspired by Cary Grant to drop LSD. As Wikipedia says: ‘In September 1959, Grant confessed to Look magazine that he had taken LSD under a doctor’s supervision, and it had changed his life. He said acid helped him find “a tough inner core of strength.” Shortly after reading the Look article, Williams contacted Grant. He called his doctor and made an appointment for her. Williams said LSD seemed like instant psychoanalysis.‒
