Ashley Benson made anti-drug pact over family's addiction issues

Actress Ashley Benson vowed never to experiment with drugs after watching addiction issues wreck the lives of some of her relatives.

The star plays a drug-taking party girl in 2013 teen drama Spring Breakers, but Benson is adamant she would never risk getting high in real life after witnessing members of her own family struggle with substance abuse.

She tells Cosmopolitan magazine, "There are drugs and alcohol in my family on both sides, so I've seen lives ruined, going to jail and all that.

"Once you start with any drug, it can be an addiction - that's why I never want to start and am not even tempted, because that chain is relentless. And if it runs in your family, you see how unglamorous it is. I would never want to be out of control with my body."