Although he recovered well enough to make a series of films during the Nineties, he became addicted to cocaine and only kicked the habit after suffering an overdose in 1995. He went on to appear on the American TV series Celebrity Rehab, in which he was told by psychiatrist Charles Sophy that his accident had “probably” had a greater effect on him than he realised. Sophy described it as essentially weakening his mental "filters" and causing him to speak and act impulsively.