Tim Allen Opens Up About Serving Time Prison on Cocaine Charges
Allen — now nearly 23 years sober — said he began drinking at age 10, inspired by cowboy movies that showed men riding horses and drinking whiskey. "That stuff's gotta be pretty damn refreshing," he thought at the time. By the time his father was killed in a car crash when he was 11, he was already an experienced drinker. "I was lost," he said of his adolescence. In 1978, when he was 25, Allen was arrested at the Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport in Michigan with over a pound of cocaine in his luggage. He pleaded guilty to the charges and was sent to federal prison for two ...