{"id":2065584,"date":"2025-10-03T01:23:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T01:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2065584"},"modified":"2025-10-03T01:23:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T01:23:48","slug":"tim-allen-says-he-was-pigeonholed-during-drug-arrest-considered-ending-life-globe-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/tim-allen-says-he-was-pigeonholed-during-drug-arrest-considered-ending-life-globe-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Allen Says He Was \u2018Pigeonholed\u2019 During Drug Arrest, Considered Ending Life \u2013 Globe Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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2022 Kathy Hutchins \/ Hutchins Photo\/Newscom\/The Mega Agency<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tim Allen<\/strong> opened up about his legal troubles dating back to the 1970s when he served two years in prison on drug charges, claiming he was treated unfairly.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was just like in a freaking movie,\u201d Allen, 72, told host Howie Mandel<\/strong> during the September 30 episode of his Howie Mandel Does Stuff<\/em> podcast<\/a> about being busted at an airport. \u201c[The drugs were] in a locker. If you wanna get into the details of it, I was treated just as badly as people of color. I was pigeonholed because I was a light-skinned guy from an upper-middle class family.\u201d<\/p>\n

He went on to allege that police officers and Drug Enforcement Agents were \u201cafter\u201d him.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey wanted to make an example of me,\u201d Allen continued. \u201cSo I went through a court system that my mother watched\u2026she totally lost faith in the U.S. legal system\u201d<\/p>\n

When Mandel, 69, asked if he was \u201cdoing\u201d or \u201cselling\u201d drugs, the Home Improvement<\/em> alum referenced Scarface<\/em>, \u201cDon\u2019t get greedy and don\u2019t do your own stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n

He doubled down on the belief that his arrest was a \u201csetup.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t have a pre-sentence report. Most of the situation \u2014 as I look at it \u2014 was a setup. I wouldn\u2019t have any idea where to sell this amount [of drugs],\u201d he recalled. \u201cThey needed a certain amount to be sold and the police set this up. The DEA did all the setup. It was predetermined what was going to happen to me way before I was in there.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Allen was caught with more than 1.4 pounds of cocaine at the Kalamazoo\/Battle Creek International Airport in Michigan in October 1978. In order to avoid a possible life sentence, the then-25-year-old pleaded guilty to felony drug trafficking, which he still maintains he \u201cdidn\u2019t do.\u201d<\/p>\n

He ultimately served two years and four months in federal prison.<\/p>\n

\u201c[I made] horribly stupid jokes because I was in there going \u2018I\u2019m going to kill myself. I can\u2019t deal with this,\u2019\u201d he told Mandel. \u201cSo I was going to kill myself and the comedy part of me goes, \u2018OK, how are we going to do this?\u2019 My comedy part is always funny at the weirdest times.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Allen seemingly made light of the topic, the Deal or No Deal<\/em> host questioned, \u201cBut this was a serious consideration?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYes. Because \u2026 at that point, it was called the Rockefeller Act. Anything over a certain amount was life in prison,\u201d he said. \u201cThey wanted to stop drugs like they\u2019re trying to do now by increasing the sentence or putting people in prison. It didn\u2019t work then. You can\u2019t make people not get high.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source globemagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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