James Cameron Was Drugged
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What happened on the Halifax Titanic set that led to hospitalization?
Did you know that James Cameron was super high on the set of Titanic? Now the story starts, of course, with this guy, James Cameron. You know, famous director, he did some of the Terminator movies and the Avatar movies and also Piranha 2. So no doubt he's a creative genius, but He's also known for being a real jerk on set. Like he gets super pissed off if anything disrupts the shooting schedule or gets in the way of his creative vision. And he'll like yell at people if anything goes wrong. And one day in 1996, he gets really mad on set. Because he's in Canada filming his current movie, Titanic, and they're shooting some of the modern day scenes. You know, the scenes with the actor Bill Paxton. Well, allegedly, James spots one of the caterers near the set smoking a little Zaza.
So he tells a crew member, go have that guy fired. And so, boom, the guy ends up getting fired, which means that James has just pissed off the caterer, someone who has access to the crew's food. And allegedly, this caterer is not going to let this slide. He now wants to get revenge on James Cameron. Because right around this time, someone, we can only speculate who, but someone has some PCP. And they pour an entire pound of it into the seafood chowder that's about to be served to the cast and crew. PCP is, of course, a very serious drug that causes hallucinations and, you know, makes people go crazy. And if someone wanted revenge on James Cameron, making sure that his cast and crew can't work because they're hallucinating would definitely be the way to do it.
So now it's the last night of shooting the Bill Paxton scenes, and James and the crew, they work late into the night. Then, around midnight, they all take a break to eat, and a huge seafood buffet is being served, including the spiked chowder. So about 80 members of the crew sit down and they eat it. But James, he eats with Bill Paxton in his trailer, where they each have a bowl of the chowder. And afterwards, James returns to set, ready to continue filming. But he immediately notices something is very off, because not a single member of the crew has returned from break. And so James is just sitting there in the director's chair all alone like, what is going on? Where is everyone? Then, boom, the PCP suddenly hits him.
And his vision starts tunneling and he feels woozy and his arms go numb. And he's like, oh, shit, I must have food poisoning. So he goes to find an on-set medic. But along the way, he finds his crew in total chaos. Like all 80 people who ate the chowder, which includes half the cast and crew, are all feeling exactly how James is feeling. They're getting confused and they're disoriented and they're starting to freak out about what's happening to them. So production members try to organize the chaos. Like, whoever feels sick, get in this line. And they line them up to load them into vans to take them to the emergency room. And since James and Bill Paxton are both feeling it too, they get in the vans as well.
And at this point, it's around 1 a.m. And the vans arrive at this tiny local hospital. And suddenly, the emergency room at this place is full of 80 new patients. all severely disoriented, and the hospital staff, they're like panicking over how to handle this many people at once. And so the staff starts asking questions, and they find out that all these sick people have one thing in common. They ate the chowder. And to the doctors and nurses, this looks really bad. I mean, they don't yet know that someone drugged the food, so they believe it's something much worse.
Why did James Cameron reportedly fire a caterer before the chowder incident?
And so the doctor explains to everyone that shellfish can cause neurotoxin poisoning. He says, this kind of shellfish poisoning can be fatal. Some of you may not make it through the night. Everyone should call their families and say their goodbyes. And so now people are hysterical. I mean, the drugs are already making them freak out and now they think they're about to die. And so some of them are like crying and panicking and calling their families like, I just have to tell you that I love you.
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