Philip Seymour Hoffman's Diaries Reveal Fights with Demons, Still Promoted Sundance Project

Philip Seymour Hoffman's Diaries Reveal Fights with Demons, Still Promoted Sundance Project

by Breitbart News 11 Feb 2014, 4:02 PM PDT

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2014/02/11/hoffman-battled-demons-still-worked-sundance

Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman was clearly tortured in the final months of his life, at least according to diaries left behind and revealed by NBC News.

The news outlet gained exclusive rights to the diary material, writings described as alternately dark and rambling.

Yet the actor appeared at the Sundance Film Festival less than a month before what appears to be a fatal overdose on Feb. 2.

According to multiple sources familiar with the contents, the hand-scrawled entries make reference to drug deals, to the actor’s struggle with his “demons,” and his attempt to stay clean by attending Narcotics Anonymous meetings in lower Manhattan.

But the diaries are also hard to read, with scribbled lines, and sentences that run into each other. The handwriting sometimes starts out clearly and then becomes illegible, said a source, as if he had written parts of the diaries while high.

Earlier this year, Hoffman took part in the Sundance promotion of one of his last films, God's Pocket, a film directed by Mad Men star John Slattery.

Sundance Film Festival

Sundance Institute is the sponsor for the Sundance Film Festival.

Note: Robert Redford is the founder & president for the Sundance Institute, a partner at the Sundance Channel, and a trustee at the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Sundance Channel is a partner with NBCUniversal.

NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of NBC.

NBC News is a subsidiary of NBC.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Sundance Institute, and the Natural Resources Defense Council.

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Stanley Tucci is a trustee at the Sundance Institute, and an actor in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013).

Philip Seymour Hoffman was an actor in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013), and a nominee supporting actor (The Master) at the 2013 Academy Awards.

 Steven Spielberg was a nominee director (Lincoln) at the 2013 Academy Awards, and a co-founder & consultant for DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc.

Mellody L. Hobson is the chairman for DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc., a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and a trustee at the Sundance Institute.

Sundance Institute is the sponsor for the Sundance Film Festival.