From hell to Hollywood: Danny Trejo on jail, drugs and life as counsellor

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Danny Trejo's gravelly guffaws holler down the line as he remembers the moment he could not quite believe how his life on turned out.

Once a violent drug dealer languishing in a gangster prison, he was now on a boat in the Amazon rainforest, looking up at a star filled sky – and over at one of the world’s most beautiful women.

The actor, one of Hollywood’s most famous tough guys, spent weeks on a river boat with Jennifer Lopez filming the 1997 movie Anaconda, which also starred Ice Cube and Owen Wilson. “My God,” he chuckles in his raspy tones. “I’ll never forget that, just thinking, ‘I’m on the Amazon River with Jennifer Lopez’. “She’s so nice, but I’m sorry, you can’t keep your eyes of her, it’s impossible. “She wasn’t the big star she