- Woody Harrelson had to smoke a joint to get through dinner with Donald and Melania Trump.
- The actor told Esquire that the "brutal" dinner party took place in 2002 before Melania was his wife.
- "It got so bad I had to go outside and burn one before returning to the monologue monopoly," he said.
- "I came up through Hollywood, so I've seen narcissists," he added. "This guy was beyond. It blew my mind."
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Actor Woody Harrelson has revealed he smoked a joint to help get through a long dinner with Donald and Melania Trump.
Speaking to Esquire magazine the actor, 58, said the "brutal" dinner took place at Trump Tower in 2002.
"So we all met at Trump Tower, sat down. Melania was there, only she wasn't his wife yet. And it was, let me tell you, a brutal dinner. Two and a half hours," he said.
The actor claimed he struggled to get a word in and even went outside at one point to light a joint, saying: "It got so bad I had to go outside and burn one before returning to the monologue monopoly.
"Listen, I came up through Hollywood, so I've seen narcissists. This guy was beyond. It blew my mind."
This isn't the actor's only brush with future political leaders. Harrelson also revealed he crossed paths with vice president Mike Pence as the two attended college together, though says his encounter with the future VP was more positive.
"As a freshman, I gave a sermon to a youth group, and Mike was the guy running the show," he said, "He was a junior, I think. He struck me as a nice guy, very sincere. I don't know how well we'd get along now, but we got along okay then."
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