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"  Leonardo DiCaprio has spoken about his upbringing and how it&amp;#039;s helped him stay clean in Hollywood. The Wolf of Wall Street actor, who first appeared on television in 1989, said that his early years in a rundown Hollywood neighbourhood prevented him from turning out like many child stars. He told the Los Angeles Times: &amp;quot;There was a major prostitution ring on my street corner, crime and violence everywhere. &amp;quot;It really was like Taxi Driver in a lot of ways. I grew up very poor and I got to see the other side of the spectrum.&amp;quot; DiCaprio added: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve never done drugs. That&amp;#039;s because I saw this stuff literally every day when I was 3 or 4 years old. &amp;quot;So Hollywood was a walk in the park for me. I&amp;#039;d go to parties and it was there, and yeah, there&amp;#039;s that temptation.&amp;quot; The actor recently opened up about his drug-taking scenes in The Wolf of Wall Street as stockbroker Jordan Belfort. He said he was coached by the real Belfort - on whose memoirs the Martin Scorsese movie is based - on how to act after taking a &amp;quot;tremendous&amp;quot; amount of Quaaludes, a drug traditionally used to help aid sleep. &amp;quot;I video taped him on the floor, rolling around, and he really articulated to me that you have every intention of going to a certain destination, but your body doesn&amp;#039;t go along with you,&amp;quot; DiCaprio explained. &amp;quot;We shot it for a week, and it was a lot of chiropractic work for me because it was incredibly painful.&amp;quot; Via Digital Spy "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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