Billy Zane confirms Titanic’s most unbelievable behind-the-scenes story

James Cameron once said you haven't truly lived until you've been high on PCP, and honestly, an entire Titanic film crew found that out the absolute hardest way possible, completely by accident, in a bowl of chowder. Billy Zane just revisited this legendary Hollywood mystery on the Brotherly Love podcast, clarifying he personally wasn't there when it all went down, though he confirmed it happened during the modern-day framing scenes shot in Nova On August 8, 1996, supposedly the very last night of filming, someone spiked a batch of clam chowder with PCP, and roughly 80 cast and crew members ended up hospitalized, including James Cameron himself and the late Bill Paxton. Paxton described the chaos perfectly at the time, saying some people were laughing, some crying, some throwing up entirely at random. Cameron recalled walking into an empty emergency room only to watch 85 crew members pile in right behind him, all completely unaware someone had dumped a full pound of PCP straight into the food. One crew member remembered watching Cameron sprint by with an extra chasing him, panicking and yelling that something was inside him and needed to come out immediately. Set decorator Claude Roussel later described Paxton as genuinely sweet through the whole ordeal, sitting in the hospital hallway just quietly enjoying the buzz, while Gripps reportedly did wheelies down the corridor in wheelchairs. Utterly unhinged. Completely true. Here's the twist that makes this whole thing even funnier, though. Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, and Gloria Stewart all completely dodged the chaos entirely, simply because they weren't shooting that day or never touched the chowder. Meanwhile, to this day, nobody has ever been officially blamed or caught for spiking the food in the first place. Titanic went on to become one of the highest-grossing films ever made, and Zane has since jokingly called this bizarre chowder incident the movie's actual secret ingredient for success. Some behind-the-scenes stories age into legend, and this one just got dusted off nearly 30 years later. Did you already know about this wild Titanic set story? Tell us below.