Todd Bridges Recalls Eddie Murphy Tapping Rick James For Intervention

Diff’rent Strokes star Todd Bridges recently reflected on the time in the ’80s when Eddie Murphy enlisted Rick James to stage an intervention for his drug use.

While appearing on The Patrick LabyorSheaux podcast, he explained that it all started when The Pickup star noticed he was spiraling. “Eddie was like, ‘Man, we gotta get Todd some help. He’s trippin’. We gotta find somebody who knows about drugs.’ Everybody’s naming Rick James. ‘Send Rick James over there!’”

The plan might’ve worked if the “Brick House” singer wasn’t getting high, too. “Rick comes to my house, opens his car door, and all this smoke comes out,” he further explained the moment. “I’m like, ‘What’s going on?’” he added, noting that the funk legend was “getting higher than [he] was at the time.”