Jamie Lee Curtis opened up in an interview with Variety about her former struggle with addiction to Vicodin, and how at the time, "no one knew at all".
Jamie Lee Curtis opened up in an interview with Variety about her former struggle with addiction to Vicodin, and how at the time, "no one knew at all".
For those of you that don't know, Vicodin is a commonly prescribed medication used to treat moderate to severe pain. However, can easily be abused and used recreationally.
"I had a routine plastic surgery because of a cameraman," she said. "I naturally had puffy eyes. If you see photographs of me as a child, I look like I haven’t slept."
"And it came around to my coverage in the scene, and [the cameraman] said, “I’m not shooting her today. Her eyes are too puffy.”
"I went and had routine plastic surgery to remove the puffiness. They gave me Vicodin as a painkiller for something that wasn’t really painful."
"No one knew at all. Not one person knew except the people I would get [the painkillers] from."
Little did she know, a friend of her's who had been staying at her house, had spotted her from the next room.
"'You think you’re so fabulous and so great, but the truth is you’re dead. You’re a dead woman.’”
“Now I knew someone knew. I had been nursing a secret Vicodin addiction for a very long time — over 10 years.”
A few weeks later, her sister, who had recently been prescribed Vicodin for an injury, was visiting and staying in Jamie's home.
It wasn't long before Jamie was sneaking into her room to steal it.
“So I wrote her a letter and I said, ‘I’ve done a terrible thing, and I’ve stolen your pills from you, and I’m sorry.’"
"But she just looked at me and put her arms out and hugged me and said, ‘You are an addict and I love you'".
"She didn’t tell me anything else.”
The story inspired her and jumpstarted her recovery.
Let us know what you think of Jamie's interview with Variety and owning up to the public about her past struggles with addiction.