"I loved coke. I never did a lot, just a little bit at parties," the Oscar-winning actress says in the latest issue of British edition of GQ magazine. "Dope always made me feel miserable and paranoid and unhappy," she adds.

"And I woke up one day and thought, 'No more of that, thank you.'" Well, good for you, Helen, we say. Today’s youngsters are lousy at just waking up and realizing things like that. What other skeletons do you have in that royal closet of yours?

So she continues to reminisce those gay old times in her youth with another memory unsuitable for children and people over 70: she was date-raped “a couple of times” and she doesn’t mean that in the attacked-in-a-dark-alley-way, but more like a date gone badly.

"Not with excessive violence, or being hit, but rather being locked in a room and made to have sex against my will."
The actress who became hugely famous and also a fan of the British Royal Family after she played the role of Queen Elizabeth II also tells about her struggling years when she used to shoplift for food from time to time, so she wouldn’t starve.

She confesses calmly and makes it all look like it’s not all such a big deal. She’s famous, beautiful, looks amazing at 60, she’s wealthy and she’s made it in the business, which many don’t succeed at, even though they stay drug-free and keep their hands to themselves in a grocery store.

Oh, such shocking news! She was a 20-year-old actress in the ‘60s living in London, no less. Of course it was all fun and games for her in that era. Let’s just hope that the Queen, the real one, doesn’t read GQ, or there will be no more horsey chat for Helen when they bump into each other at the Royal Ascot horse racing event next year.