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Jamie Lee Curtis Celebrates 22 Years of Sobriety
Jamie Lee Curtis is celebrating 22-years of being sober from both an alcohol and pain pill addiction.
The 62-year-old actress opened up with AARP The Magazine about her sobriety journey and offers advice to others looking to overcome their addictions.
“I’ve been sober 22 years, off of an alcohol and pain pill addiction,” she began.
“The process of being a sober person puts you in the one day at a time mentality,” she continued.
“Try to forget about the past, because you can’t do anything about it anyway,” she said. “And try to live a present life.”
“Look at what age your parents died, look at what age you are. It’s not long. Laugh about it a little. And then shut up and do something! So that’s where I’m at in my life right now.”
Curtis has a new lease for life and creativity since becoming sober, something that she calls the “great mental migration”.
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She has had a family history of addiction.
Jamie’s father, actor Tony Curtis, struggled with alcohol, cocaine and heroin addiction.
Her half-brother, Nicholas Curtis, died from a heroin overdose in 1994.
Jamie recalls a moment on vacation in 1998 “where she washed down a handful of Vicodin tablets with a glass of wine” and waited for “that lovely opiate hit”.
This opioid habit began after painkillers where prescribed to her following a minor cosmetic procedure.
She shares that a “Brazilian healer friend who was visiting approached her from behind and said in a heavy whisper: ‘You’re not Jamie.’”
In 1999, she entered recovery and has been sober ever since.
The star now has her own charity, My Hand In Yours.
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