Todd Bridges Says He Can’t Recall Shooting

Actor Todd Bridges testified at his attempted-murder trial Tuesday that he was so intoxicated with cocaine after a four-day binge that he cannot remember shooting and nearly killing a man inside a cocaine rock house.

Bridges, 24, the former child star of such television sitcoms as “Fish” and “Diff’rent Strokes,” is on trial in Los Angeles Superior Court in the shooting of convicted Texas drug dealer Kenneth (Tex) Clay, who was wounded eight times last Feb. 2 in a South Los Angeles house.

Clay testified last week that after he and Bridges argued, Bridges and an associate named Harvey Duckett kicked open the door of the house. Bridges then stood over him and repeatedly shot him with a handgun.

Bridges said he went to the house but does not remember much of what happened.

“We kicked the door in. Tex jumped out. I thought I saw a silver-plated gun in his hand. I thought he was going to kill me,” Bridges testified.

Asked by defense attorney Johnnie Cochran if he remembers shooting Clay, Bridges replied, “I don’t think I did. I didn’t know who did. That’s one of the side effects of drugs.”