Departing "CSI" Star Popped With Drugs, Life Imitating Art

"CSI" star Gary Dourdan has been busted in Palm Springs for possession of heroin, cocaine, ecstasy and prescription pills, just weeks before his final appearance on the show as Warrick Brown. Deets are sketchy but he was sleeping in his car at 5 a.m. when cops moved in. And, unfuckingbelievably, tonight CBS had scheduled a repeat that revolved around Warrick's addiction to pills. It'll be interesting to see if that still airs. Assuming anybody with that many drugs hasn't been able to conceal his taste for them from his co-workers, you have to wonder why the writers chose that particular problem for Dourdan to act out. That's stone cold. You also have to wonder if drug problems motivated his exit from the show. His departure, announced only recently, was said to be a mutual decision between him and the producers.