CNN Transcript - Sunday: CNN 20: John Belushi Dies, March 5, 1982

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CNN 20: John Belushi Dies, March 5, 1982

Aired March 5, 2000 - 4:20 p.m. ET

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BILL TUSH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: I did one of the last interviews with John Belushi actually. He had just done a movie called "Neighbors," which I found out later he absolutely hated, and he and the director almost got into a fistfight because Belushi had to do some stunt the director wanted to do that almost killed him. And then I remember being at CNN three, four months later and they said, do you still have that tape, do you have that tape? I dug it out. They said, Belushi is dead.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The 33-year-old Belushi was found dead here in the bungalow he was renting at this Hollywood hotel. Police say his body was discovered by his physical trainer.

LT. DAN COOKE, L.A. POLICE DEPT.: William Wallace (ph) had called over a period of a couple of hours trying to reach Mr. Belushi, but nobody answered the phone. So he came on over here and found Belushi on his bed.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The "Los Angeles Times" has reported that actor John Belushi had been injecting himself with heroin for the past two years. The "Times" said two film producers and a studio executive confirmed the late actor's heroin abuse. All three, who wished to remain anonymous, said Belushi used cocaine regularly, but did not normally mix the two drugs which resulted in his death.

LEE LEONARD, "LOS ANGELES TIMES": John was off the air, much as he was on the air, unpredictable, funny, a little wild, and a little crazy, but enormously talented and he will be missed in the business, as well, by his friends and associates.

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