Crack, cocaine cost Michael K. William his homes while filming ‘The Wire’
nypost.comScenes from My Life,” the posthumous memoir from the star — who died of an overdose of fentanyl, cocaine and heroin on Sept.
6, 2021 — delves into the addiction which ultimately took his life at the age of 54.During the second season of “The Wire,” which aired on HBO from 2002 to 2008, Williams was abusing drugs on days he wasn’t shooting the show in Baltimore.“I rolled like that pretty much all year, until I was completely broke,” he wrote. “When Season 2 wrapped, I felt the thud of coming back down to Earth.
I could no longer afford the rent on that beautiful Baltimore apartment. Putting all my things in storage, I moved back to New York, to my empty [Flatbush Gardens, Brooklyn] apartment, which had nothing but a mattress on the floor and a milk crate to eat on.
When the rent came due again, I had nothing left so I got evicted. I had nowhere to live and my mother was trying to get me to go to rehab, but I was not having it.”In the book, out Aug.
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