Nicolas CageNicolas Cage has said he doesn’t think rehab is necessarily the answer for drug-addicted stars.

The Ghost Rider star is now 44 but admits to spending his youth taking a succession of illegal substances.

He explained recently: “In my twenties I went through a period of drinking and drug-taking. It didn’t make me happy but I wanted to experience them to know how they would make me feel.”

“Drugs make every single nightmare you ever had come true.”

“[But] I never went to rehab, I never went through any form of [Alcoholics Anonymous]. I went through years of experimenting and then hit the realisation that it just didn’t work for me.”