News / Published 2026-11-05

Dafne Keen Says She Was Offered Cocaine at 11

Dafne Keen said she was offered cocaine at wrap parties when she was a child, The Hollywood Reporter reports. The account came in a Tuesday appearance on the Inside of You podcast with Michael Rosenbaum, during a conversation that started on drinking. Keen put it plainly: “I was getting offered coke at wrap parties.”

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Dafne Keen told the Inside of You podcast that she was offered cocaine at wrap parties when she was 11, 12 and 13; the two reports differ on her age, on the kind of party and on the pickup.

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THE SHORT VERSION

  • Dafne Keen said on the Inside of You podcast that she was offered cocaine at wrap parties when she was a child, at what she called the ages of 11, 12 and 13, The Hollywood Reporter reports.
  • Variety carries the same account, credits Entertainment Weekly for the pickup, sets the offers at Hollywood parties and gives her age as 21, none of which appears in the THR piece.
  • Both papers print her answer about never having been drunk enough for a hangover and her praise for Hugh Jackman on Logan, but neither names a party, a production or anyone who made an offer.

What She Said on the Podcast

Dafne Keen said she was offered cocaine at wrap parties when she was a child, The Hollywood Reporter reports. The account came in a Tuesday appearance on the Inside of You podcast with Michael Rosenbaum, during a conversation that started on drinking. Keen put it plainly: “I was getting offered coke at wrap parties.” Asked how old she had been, she answered with a range rather than a single year: “Like, tiny. Like 11, 12, 13.” THR does not say which production those parties followed.

Variety carries the same account from the same podcast and credits Entertainment Weekly for the pickup, which THR never mentions. It sets the offers at Hollywood parties, where THR says wrap parties, and it gives her age as 21, a detail THR does not print at any point. Neither report names a party, a production or a person who made an offer, and neither carries a response from a publicist, a studio or anyone else who was in the room.

Eleven, and One Film Shoot

Variety ties the timeline to a single film. Keen shot Logan when she was 11, it reports, and the film opened in theaters a couple of months after her 12th birthday. The paper does not say that the wrap parties she describes were Logan's, and it offers no second title. THR dates nothing and gives no age at the time, calling her the Logan actress in one paragraph and the Deadpool & Wolverine actress in another, which places the interview after both releases without pinning the childhood years.

“Now 21 years old” is Variety's phrase, and it sits in the first paragraph of its story. Both papers treat Logan as the breakthrough. Variety says she got it playing the young mutant Laura/X-23 opposite Hugh Jackman; THR calls the same part the mutant clone and biological daughter of Wolverine. Neither piece points to an earlier interview in which she discussed child acting, and neither says whether this podcast answer is the first time she has described the offers in public.

A Control Freak About Drinking

The drinking question produced the line both papers print. Keen told Rosenbaum she did not think she had ever been drunk enough to even have a hangover, and she called herself a control freak about it. She tied that to what she watched as a child actor: she had witnessed so much of it, she said, that she had no interest. The two ideas arrive together in her answer, and both papers keep them together.

The two papers cut that answer differently. THR gives it as a single quotation after a line of narration about the podcast turning to drinking. Variety folds it into a longer block that runs on into the wrap parties and the ages, so the same words arrive as part of one continuous answer. Where the wording overlaps it matches, including the phrase control freak. Neither report quotes her describing a particular night, a particular amount or a particular person, and neither records a follow-up question about who else was present.

The Lies She Told About Drinking

Keen said she used to lie as a teenager so that she would not get peer pressured into drinking. The routine, as THR quotes it, was to say she was good, that she did not want a drink, and that she had already taken something, while staying “dead sober”. She called herself “the goodest goody-two-shoes ever”, and that is the whole of her account of those years.

Variety carries the same passage inside a longer answer about going out. In its version she says she does not really need alcohol, that she will stay out until six in the morning but sober, and that she goes for the music, the dancing and the people. THR has that list in a sentence of its own and adds that she prefers to go out sober. Both papers leave the teenage years undated, so the lies sit somewhere between the child roles and the adult answer without a year attached to either.

Jackman, Hours and Protection

Both papers turn from the parties to Hugh Jackman, her co-star in Logan. Keen said Jackman gave her a lot of positive reinforcement and good advice and was always lovely. She called him “the best number one you could ever wish for” and the best on-screen dad, and said he genuinely felt like a parental figure. The praise is unqualified in both versions, and neither paper puts a question to it.

Her description of what he did is the more specific part. She said he made sure “no one was abusing my hours”, that she was having fun on set, and that she was not aware of tensions behind the scenes, and she called him “so incredibly protective and amazing”. Both papers print that sentence and the praise around it. Neither asks Jackman for comment, and neither quotes another member of the Logan cast on the subject.

What She Says Now, and What Is Missing

Variety lists what followed Logan: the lead in HBO and BBC One's His Dark Materials across three seasons, a role in the Star Wars series The Acolyte, a return as X-23 in Deadpool and Wolverine, and Artemis in what it calls the third season of Percy Jackson and the Olympics. THR mentions only the Logan and Deadpool & Wolverine credits. Neither report carries a statement from a studio, a producer or a representative, and neither says what, if anything, changed on a set after she said no.

What is missing from both is the shape of the story. No production is named, no party is dated, and the only age she gives is the range. Her answer about why she avoids the stuff now is the part she repeats, and neither paper asks her to go further than that. Related coverage on this site includes Jessica Lange on stepping back from acting, Paul Bettany on returning to Vision and Michael Douglas on Jack Nicholson.

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  1. Dafne Keen on Being Offered Cocaine at 11 Years Old — The Hollywood Reporter
  2. Dafne Keen Says She Was Offered Cocaine as a Young Teenager in Hollywood — Variety
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