This Actress Represents Stephen King’s Addiction to Cocaine + 9 Other Movie Metaphors
1. Misery
The lead character in Misery, Annie Wilkes, represents Stephen King’s cocaine addiction.
In a 2014 interview with Rolling Stone, horror author extraordinaire Stephen King opened up about a massive alcohol and drug addiction he’d had in the 1970’s and 1980’s: “I was usually pretty good about it. I was able to get up and make the kids breakfast and get them off to school. And I was strong; I had a lot of energy. I would’ve killed myself otherwise. But the books start to show it after a while. Misery is a book about cocaine. Annie Wilkes is cocaine. She was my number-one fan.”
