Robert Downey Jr was only six years old when he took the first step on his chaotic path to drug addiction and prison.His father had spotted him sipping a glass of white wine during a poker night at the family home in New York. But instead of swiftly extracting the glass from his young son’s hands, he passed him a cannabis joint and told him to puff on that instead. Such was cult film-maker Robert Downey Sr’s unorthodox approach to childcare.Far less well known than his Hollywood-star son — who overcame his demons to become the world’s highest-paid actor — Robert Downey Sr was a maverick director who was also a hopeless drug addict for much of his life.
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