‘Caddyshack’ star dishes dirt on wild time filming 1980 comedy in Broward

‘Caddyshack’ star dishes dirt on wild time filming 1980 comedy in Broward

Fast times at Rolling Hills!

“Your Friends & Neighbors” actor Michael O’Keefe is spilling some serious tea about what the set of “Caddyshack” was like back in the day — and apparently, it was quite something.

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The “Roseanne” alum starred as Danny Noonan, a caddie at the fictional upper crust Bushwood Country Club, along with comic legends Bill Murray, Rodney Dangerfield and Chevy Chase.

The cast and crew actually set up camp the year before its release at Rolling Hills Golf Course about 20 miles from Miami, in Davie, now the Grande Oaks Golf Club.

O’Keefe revealed in a recent interview with Page Six that the atmosphere was seriously wild, and cocaine so rampant that it was even factored into part of the film’s budget as a “miscellaneous item.”

O’Keefe wrote off the on-set antics as just a sign of the times.

“That’s what was happening back then,” the New York native recalled. “People were just treating it like it was toothpaste, and you had to do it twice a day to stay healthy.”

The 71-year-old Hollywood vet admits he isn’t proud of his past transgressions, which include even being high in some scenes.

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“In retrospect, I can see those moments on camera and I’m not too happy about them,” O’Keefe told the outlet, adding he went cold turkey on coke soon after the film came out.

“I realized that it was a terrible thing to get involved [with], and like so many things in the drug world, it looked like fun, but in reality, it wasn’t.”

Since the Page Six story dropped, there’s been no comment from any “Caddyshack” filmmakers, but Chase, for one, has long been open about his struggles with substance abuse. And many of the folks who worked on the flick are no longer around, like Doug Kenney, who wore both writing and producing hats.

The founder of National Lampoon, a West Palm Beach native, fell to his death off a cliff in Hawaii a month after the movie hit theaters. His death at 33 was ruled accidental, but rumors persist drugs played a role.

O’Keefe is one of those who believes that rumor and losing his friend affected him deeply.

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“That was a huge wake-up call,” he said.

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