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During his Saturday Night Live days in the early ’80s, Eddie Murphy was faced with plenty of temptation when it came to his famous and funny castmates.

But, he insists in a new interview with the Hollywood Reporter, he always abstained. “I don’t drink — I don’t have like this moral thing about it, I just don’t do it — and I didn’t get high.”

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In fact, Murphy recalls one particular night out with Robin Williams, John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd when things could have gone an entirely different way. “Belushi and Robin Williams offered me some blow and I didn’t take it, and Belushi called me a ‘tightass.’ Then, years later, I was like, ‘Wow, that’s a trip,'” he said.

“The Eddie Murphy story would have been totally different,” he continued, contemplating what life would have been like if he had partaken. “There are a bunch of things like that that I look back on and be like, ‘Wow.’ And that just reaffirms my faith. I know that God is real. There’s been a bunch of times when I could have wound up crashing and burning.”

Belushi died of an overdose in 1982 at the age of 33 and is most beloved for his role as Jake Blues in the 1980 film The Blues Brothers.

Williams committed suicide in 2014 at the age of 63 after battling addiction to drugs and alcohol for most of his life.