Vinnie Jones has never tried drugs
Footballer-turned-actor Vinnie Jones has admitted he's never tried drugs in his life and spent his youth training buzzards instead of getting high.
Vinnie Jones spent his youth training buzzards instead of dabbling with drugs.
The 59-year-old footballer-turned-actor has admitted he's never tried any illegal substances - declaring there was "no cocaine" when he was a kid - so Vinnie's younger years growing up in Hertfordshire, England were focused on the local wildlife.
He told the Guardian newspaper: "When I tell people I’ve never taken a drug in my life, they’re like, ‘What?' But, as youngsters, it wasn’t our way. There was no ... cocaine and stuff like that.
"Our way of getting high was finding a bird’s nest or getting a ferret that didn’t bite your hand off. Our hard drug was training a buzzard."
Vinnie went on to insist he is hoping to shed his "meat head" persona onscreen and start filming nature shows so he can indulge his love of British wildlife.
He added: "[People] just think of me as a hardman who’s going to fight bears in Russia, you know? They can’t think beyond the stereotype. I really want to make a nature programme like Jack Hargreaves. I’ve even built a log cabin in my garden we could use for filming."
It comes after Vinnie previously admitted he felt like he was on a "downhill train" at the height of his Hollywood success.
He starred in a number of well-known movies - including 'Snatch', 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels' and 'Gone in 60 Seconds' - following his retirement from soccer, but he is now keen to reinvent himself once again.
Vinnie previously told the Guardian: "If you look at my career, it flew off the rails. Went up, went to Hollywood, everything else: bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. The wheels were going, it was a downhill train and everybody was on it – the train was full! There weren’t a spare seat! – and we loved it and enjoyed it and it was a fantastic part of my life. Never take it back.
"But then the train starts going uphill, and slowing up. And you’ve got to reinvent yourself; you know, you’ve got to get the train to the top of the hill, so you can go again."
