Jamie Lee Curtis explains why she considers herself “incredibly lucky.”
The Oscar winner, who recently celebrated 24 years of recovery, discussed her earlier battles with opioid addiction in a new interview on Morning Joe that was recorded before to the SAG-AFTRA strike, saying that her “worst day was almost invisible to anyone else.”
“Lucky me. I didn’t make bad choices while I was high or under the influence that I would later regret for the rest of my life, she said. “There are women in prison whose lives have been destroyed by alcohol and drugs, not because they were violent felons or horrible people, but because they were addicts.”
I am so grateful that wasn’t my path, she continued.
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The 64-year-old lady reported feeling “crystal and clear” during her rehabilitation. She acknowledged, “I was an opiate junkie and I liked a good opiate buzz. And if fentanyl were as easily available as it is presently on the streets, I would be dead.
The mother of two kids, Ruby, 27, and Annie, 36, who she shares with her husband Christopher Guest, the Everything Everywhere All at Once actress also said that her sober journey has enabled her to enjoy a “incredible life.”
Her abstinence, she said in the same interview, is her “greatest accomplishment.”
According to the Halloween actress, “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.” I examine my reflection. Ich sehe mich. I accept who I am. I continue because, do you know what? We have a lot of things to do in the world.
“I’m breaking the cycle that has basically destroyed the lives of generations in my family,” she declared.
Her father Tony Curtis, who also misused alcohol, cocaine, and heroin, and her brother Nicholas, who passed away from a heroin overdose at the age of 21, both have addiction histories.
“Getting sober remains my single greatest accomplishment,” she affirmed. “Bigger than my husband, both of my children, and all effort, success, and failure combined. Anything.”