Tiger King star Rick Kirkham was given his first taste of crack cocaine by a police officer he was on an undercover bust with.
The documentary-maker filmed more than 5,000 hours of himself spiralling into drug addiction in the 1990s and turned it into the 2006 feature TV Junkie, which is now on his YouTube channel.
Rick had been working as a reporter for his local TV station in Las Vegas when he was introduced to the highly addictive drug - and his life fell apart as he became hooked. "North Las Vegas police had an undercover team that would go out and bust crack houses ...
so being a crime reporter in Vegas, I was able to go out with these guys when they made these undercover busts late at night," he told the Sun. "It was one of those
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