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Jamie Lee Curtisis sharing why she is “incredibly lucky.”
Aftercelebrating 24 years of sobrietyin February, theOscar winnerreflected on her paststruggles with opioid addictionin a newinterview on theMorning Joe— taped beforethe SAG-AFTRA strikebegan — stating that her “worst day was almost invisible to anyone else.”
“I am incredibly lucky that that wasn’t my path,” she added.
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The 64-year-old explained that sobriety made everything “crystal and clear” for her. “I was an opiate addict, and I liked a good opiate buzz,” she shared. “And if fentanyl was available, as easily available as it is today on the street, I’d be dead.”
Curtis’ addiction lasted until 1999. “I was ahead of the curve of the opiate epidemic,” she toldPEOPLE in 2018. “I had a 10-year run, stealing, conniving. No one knew. No one.”
In that same interview, she expressed her sobriety is her “greatest accomplishment.”
“My sobriety has been the key to freedom, the freedom to be me, to not be looking in the mirror in the reflection and trying to see somebody else," said theHalloweenactress. “I look in the mirror. I see myself. I accept myself. And I move on because you know what? The world is filled with things we need to do.”
“I’m breaking the cycle that has basically destroyed the lives of generations in my family,” she said.
Curtis has a history of addiction in her family, including her brother Nicholas, whodied of a heroin overdosewhen he was 21 years old, and her fatherTony Curtis, who alsoabused alcohol, cocaine, and heroin.
“Getting sober remains my single greatest accomplishment,” she admitted. “Bigger than my husband, bigger than both of my children and bigger than any work, success, failure. Anything.”
If you or someone you know is struggling with substance abuse, please contact the SAMHSA helpline at 1-800-662-HELP.
source: people.com
