The web is a buzz over Helen Mirren's interview with GQ Magazine in which she admits she has done cocaine. The kicker is why she actually stopped powdering her nose.

"I used to do a bit of cocaine. I loved coke. I never did a lot, just a little bit at parties. But what ended it for me was when they caught Klaus Barbie, the Butcher of Lyon, in the early eighties. He was hiding in South America and living off the proceeds of being a cocaine baron. And I read that in the paper, and all the cards fell into place and I saw how my little sniff of cocaine at a party had an absolute direct route to this f**king horrible man in South America. And from that day I never touched cocaine again. Until that moment I had never grasped the full horrifying structure of what brings coke to our parties in Britain."

So Helen powdered her nose back in the day. Who cares? Barack Obama has admitted to it. George Bush dabbled it in too, I've heard.

Does this mean Mirren will have to step down as Queen of England?