Actor Says He was “Forced to Smoke PCP” in Jail

Harry Hamlin just dropped a jaw-dropping confession on his and wife Lisa Rinna’s podcast — and even she couldn’t believe it.

During the December 5 episode of Let’s Not Talk About the Husband, the 74-year-old actor revealed that he was “forced to smoke PCP” while spending a short time behind bars in 1970.

“In jail, I was forced to smoke PCP,” Hamlin told Rinna. “I was so stoned because [an inmate] forced me to take three or four hits of it — I was completely messed up after that.”

Rinna, 62, was stunned as her husband described how a wild series of college decisions landed him there in the first place.

Hamlin explained he’d been a student at UC Berkeley when his fraternity brothers asked him to deliver some “study pills” to another frat house at USC. The pills were rejected — so he brought them back on a plane.

“Do you think that was very smart?” Rinna asked.
“Obviously not, because I ended up in jail,” Hamlin deadpanned.

Once inside, the Mayfair Witches star said he met with the warden — who happened to know his brother from acting school — and was told not to worry. But that reassurance didn’t last long.

Hamlin said he was placed in a cell with a young man “crying his eyes out.” After feeling sorry for him, he asked to be moved in with him — a decision that landed him in a felony cell.

The next morning, things took a disturbing turn.

According to Hamlin, an inmate offered him a joint at breakfast. He declined several times, but the man wouldn’t take no for an answer. Eventually, he took a few hits — not realizing it had been soaked in PCP.

“That’s how I was forced to have the PCP,” Hamlin recalled. “They were smoking it and there was no odor — but they were high as kites.”

The shocking story left fans speechless — and Rinna wide-eyed — as Hamlin laughed off one of the wildest chapters of his youth.