'SNL' Star Darrell Hammond Spills on Crack Problem, Being Carted Off in a Straitjacket in New Book

Darrell Hammond, one of the better impersonators ever to grace the "Saturday Night Live" stage, and the man who played Bill Clinton and the Alex Trebek-taunting Sean Connery for years, is set to release a shocking new autobiography on his life in and out of "SNL."

In the upcoming book "God If You're Not Up There, I'm F*cked," Hammon (who performed on 'SNL' for a staggering 14 seasons) admits to severe bouts of drinking, doing crack, and cutting himself while working on the show, and literally having to be removed from the premises in a straitjacket (do they still do that?).

A preview of the book in the New York Post quotes Hammond as saying “I kept a pint of Remy in my desk at work. The drinking calmed my nerves and quieted the disturbing images that sprang into my head ... when drinking didn’t work, I cut myself.”

Later he recalls how he was hauled out of the NBC infirmary in a straitjacket, remembering that “my wife came but I didn’t recognize her."

While Hammond is in recovery and willing to share the more shameful elements of his own career and troubled private life (including spending some time hanging out in a Harlem crack house), he apparently doesn't use the book to bash the "SNL" staff.

“I don’t have anything bad to say about anyone there. They all really went above and beyond the call for me," Hammond told the NY Post.

Despite having years of drinking and drug problems, as well as mental health issues spurred on by emotional and physical abuse as a child, Hammond performed in more episodes of "Saturday Night Live" than any other cast member. His book comes out November 8, 2011.

Watch Darrell Hammond as Sean Connery in "Celebrity Jeopardy" from "SNL":