Gary Lewis interview circa 1986

I forgot I posted or even had this interview of Gary's where he talks about his drug abuse and actually says that Vietnam was part of the reason along with the decline in popularity of his music, that drove him into drug abuse. He hasn't always been truthful in regards to his Vietnam experiences in interviews, and glosses over that time. I feel like also in an interview Gary said that his dad was wrong and he didn't see action in Vietnam at all. That may have been the Howard Stern interview. Anyway here he agrees with what the interviewer says his father said, and I'm sure this was during a time where they were getting along again. Of course, the truth was Gary stole his parents possessions to sell drugs, held up a gas station (which got into the news), got busted for possession of drugs, and even was implicated with other men in the potential rape/assault of a woman in a car (according to an article). Not sure if he was guilty of the last one of course, but either way I've consistently held the belief that Frank Sinatra and friends helped make these charges go away somehow. Patti wrote in her book that Frank called and offered his assistance on some minor offense that I'm sure Patti wasn't telling the whole truth on what Gary had really been arrested for. Jerry claimed he had spent half a million throughout the years to get Gary out on bail for various arrests. Something to think about.