--- description: He may have had a party boy reputation, but the actor says he's clean title: Leonardo DiCaprio Says He's Never Done Drugs image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd01f9146cf067a0a/69868230e8524b24b2601757/leonardo-dicaprio-wolf-of-wall-street-jordan-belfort.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [celebrities](/tag/celebrities/) ## celebrities Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Leonardo DiCaprio Says He's Never Done Drugs  by [Eliana Dockterman](/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Correspondent Feb 7, 2014 1:25 AM CUT  Leonardo DiCaprio is Jordan Belfort in The Wolf of Wall Street. Leonardo DiCaprio is Jordan Belfort in The Wolf of Wall Street.Mary Cybulski—Paramount Pictures  by [Eliana Dockterman](/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Correspondent Feb 7, 2014 1:25 AM CUT Given Leonardo DiCaprio’s award-nominated take as the coke-snorting, Quaalude-popping Jordan Belfort in _The Wolf of Wall Street_, it’s [hard to believe](http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/moviesnow/la-et-mn-leonardo-dicaprio-20140130,0,611473.story#ixzz2saitLGpk "undefined") that the actor hasn’t indulged in debauchery of his own once or twice. But the actor told the Los Angeles _Times_ that he’s “never done” drugs. “That’s because I saw this stuff literally every day when I was 3 or 4 years old,” DiCaprio said. “So Hollywood was a walk in the park for me…. I’d go to parties and it was there and, yeah, there’s that temptation. Hollywood is a very volatile place where artists come in and they essentially say they want to belong. It’s incredibly vulnerable to be an actor and also get criticism at a young age when you’re formulating who you are. We’ve seen a lot of people fall victim to that, and it’s very unfortunate.” DiCaprio built up a reputation as a party boy in the late 1990s when, fresh off _Titanic_ fame, he and his actor entourage — dubbed “The Pussy Posse” — were caught on camera wreaking havoc in New York City. _New York Magazine_ [detailed](http://www.vulture.com/2013/11/leonardo-dicaprio-party-prince-new-york-magazine-1998-profile.html "undefined") the antics extensively in a 1998 feature called “Leo, Prince of the City.” But while the actor and his friends certainly drank and went clubbing as 20-somethings in New York, drugs, he says, were never a part of that experience for him. At 39, DiCaprio is now more likely to get caught by the paparazzi [riding on bikes around the city with starlets and models](http://www.popsugar.com/Leonardo-DiCaprio-Riding-Bikes-31141581 "undefined") than exiting a rager. The actor [said](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/31/leonardo-dicaprio-jonah-hill-high%5Fn%5F4524632.html "undefined") in a _The_ _Wolf of Wall Street_ press conference that he and Jonah Hill prepared for the scenes in which they were high by consulting with the on-set drug expert and watching the YouTube video “[The Drunkest Man in the World.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWmjWtK7Vd4#t=0 "undefined")” \[[_LA Times_](http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/moviesnow/la-et-mn-leonardo-dicaprio-20140130,0,611473.story#axzz2sYpIj6Vi "undefined")\] _Read next:_ [_Watch Leonardo DiCaprio Demand the UN Take Climate Change Seriously_](http://time.com/3422551/leonardo-dicaprio-climate-change/?xid=time%5Freadnext "undefined") ### Lights, Camera, Infraction: 12 Memorable Celebrity Mugshots  Justin Bieber Miami Dade County Jail/AP  Bruno Mars WireImage/Getty Images  Paris Hilton Los Angeles Sheriff's Department/Getty Images  Robert Downey Jr. Culver City Police Department/Getty Images  Frank Sinatra Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images  Amanda Bynes Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office/WireImage/Getty Images  Kid Rock DeKalb County Sheriff's Office/Getty Images  Kiefer Sutherland Glendale City Police Department/Getty Images  Nicole Richie Glendale Police Department/Getty Images  Mel Gibson Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department/Getty Images  James Brown Aiken County Sheriff's Office/Getty Images  Lindsay Lohan Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department/Getty Images ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5590/leonardo-dicaprio-drugs/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5590/leonardo-dicaprio-drugs/"},"headline":"Leonardo DiCaprio Says He's Never Done Drugs","datePublished":"2014-02-07T01:25:01.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:08:40.134Z","description":"He may have had a party boy reputation, but the actor says he's clean","url":"https://time.com/5590/leonardo-dicaprio-drugs/","keywords":["celebrities","titanic","Jonah Hill","Leonardo DiCaprio"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd01f9146cf067a0a/69868230e8524b24b2601757/leonardo-dicaprio-wolf-of-wall-street-jordan-belfort.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliana Dockterman","jobTitle":"Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd01f9146cf067a0a/69868230e8524b24b2601757/leonardo-dicaprio-wolf-of-wall-street-jordan-belfort.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Leonardo DiCaprio is Jordan Belfort in The Wolf of Wall Street.","caption":"Leonardo DiCaprio is Jordan Belfort in The Wolf of Wall Street.","creditText":"Mary Cybulski—Paramount Pictures","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/celebrities/","name":"celebrities"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5590/leonardo-dicaprio-drugs/","name":"Leonardo DiCaprio Says He's Never Done Drugs"}}]}] ```