Dennis Quaid found fame right alongside drugs a long time before he found God.

The Frequency actor, a household name for decades, told People in an interview published Wednesday that cocaine addiction almost ruined his career. Quaid, 69, said he has since found salvation in religion, and believes he would be death or in jail without it.

I remember going home and having kind of a white light experience that I saw myself either dead or in jail or losing everything I had, and I didnt want that, he told the outlet . I was in a band, and we got a gig They broke up the night they got it.

Quaid continued: And they broke up because of me, because I was not reliable.

After his starring role in Breaking Away (1979), Quaid said he was using up to 2 grams per day.

Cocaine at that time was considered harmless, Quaid told Larry King in 2002 . You know. I remember magazine articles in People magazine of doctors saying, it is not addicting. It is just alcohol is worse. So I think we all fell into that. But thats not the way it was.

The Dragonheart star previously admitted he never liked the feeling of being drunk and only used alcohol to come down from his cocaine binges.

Quaid checked into rehab in 1990 or cocaine school as he called it this week and said he found lifelong sobriety .