For Sterling K. Brown, doing ayahuasca with his wife, Ryan Michelle Bathé, was messy and eye-opening experience.
The actor, who stars on Hulu drama Paradise, was a guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live! this week, and recalled trying the psychedelic brew, which typically puts users through a hallucinogenic trip.
While the drug turned out to be beneficial for Brown, who tripped during a guided session in Costa Rica, it also sent him running to the bathroom. He also joked that he and his wife are "crunchy granola Black people," their excuse for trying the drug.
"Everybody has their own little bucket and own little mat that you lay on so that you can go through this experience," Brown says around the 5:30-minute mark of the video below. "And if you get sick, which is, inevitable then you come over to the bucket, you toss and then you lay back down again."
"I don't purge that way; I'm one of the few people I know that only purges through the backdoor," he continued. "You have time to make it to the bathroom."
The Golden Globe winner demonstrated himself crawling off the mat and going to the bathroom, where some people "wind up losing a lot of water."
Brown also detailed how ayahuasca gave him "clarity."
"It sort of exposes these blind spots in your life that you didn't even realize you had," he said. "It's an acquired taste, but for me it sort of had this very unifying idea that we are connected. We are all one. We come up with these arbitrary distinctions that separate us and make us think that we have to war against one another. When we all come from the same source. We're all sort of from the same place."
The actor went on to say that his wife had a "very different experience" than him, which will likely cause her not to try ayahuasca again.
Fellow acting couple Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith have also been open about their usage of ayahuasca and wrote about it in their respective memoirs.