Jamie Lee Curtis is getting candid about her decade-long struggle with substance abuse. 'If fentanyl was available, as easily available as it is today on the street, I’d be dead.'
Jamie Lee Curtis is getting candid about her decade-long struggle with substance abuse.
"I was an opiate addict, and I liked a good opiate buzz," the"Everything Everywhere All At Once" Oscar winner, 64, told Joe Scarborough July 28 on MSNBC’s "And if fentanyl was available, as easily available as it is today on the street, I’d be dead," she added.“Because I’m so hyper aware of what the alternative is,” she said, noting that her brother Nicholas died at 21 of a heroin overdose.
Jamie Lee Curtis, who celebrated 24 years of sobriety in February, told "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough, "My gratitude is enormous because I have this incredible life."in February, said she was grateful she never made"terrible" life-altering decisions while she was under the influence of drugs. "There are women in prison whose lives have been shattered by drugs and alcohol, not because they were violent felons, not because they were horrible people, but because they were addicts," said Curtis., Annie, 36, and Ruby, 26, with her actor-director husband Christopher Guest, told Scarborough she is grateful that sobriety has allowed her the chance to"grow old.
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