Jamie Lee Curtis Revealed She "Shared Drugs" with Her Father, Tony Curtis

From Oprah Magazine

• Jamie Lee Curtis may appear put together, but her private life has been a struggle.

• The Halloween star battled opiate addiction for more than 10 years.

• Ahead of her 20-year sobriety anniversary, Curtis opened up to Variety about her family, addiction, and recovery: "Getting sober [and breaking the cycle] remains my single greatest accomplishment."

Not everyone in Hollywood parties. Sure, it is an industry known for indulgence and excess, but many celebrities are sober—including Dax Shepard, Elton John, Robert Downey Jr., and Jaime Lee Curtis. In fact, the star of Freaky Friday, True Lies, and Halloween is getting ready to celebrate her 20-year sobriety anniversary, and in honor of the occasion, Curtis is speaking out about addiction.

In a revealing interview with Variety, Curtis discussed her long, secretive struggle with opiates.

"I had routine plastic surgery [in the 80s and] they gave me Vicodin as a painkiller," Curtis explained. The surgery itself wasn't difficult or in-depth. "[It] wasn’t really painful," but she left with narcotics anyway. Shortly after, her addiction began.

"No one knew [about the pills]," Curtis said."I was a wildly controlled drug addict and alcoholic. I never did it when I worked. I never took drugs before 5 p.m. I never, ever took painkillers at 10 in the morning." But she had a problem nonetheless.

Curtis told People she "had a 10-year run, stealing, conniving." She even took pills from her sister, Kelly, who later confronted her about it.

"I was terrified that she [Kelly] was going to be so angry at me," Curtis told Variety, "but she just looked at me and put her arms out and hugged me and said, 'You are an addict and I love you, but I am not going to watch you die.' That’s it. She didn’t wag her finger at me. She didn’t tell me anything else.”

Vicodin was not Curtis's first interaction with drugs. Her father struggled with addiction most of his life. Her brother, Nicholas, died of a heroin overdose when he was 21, and the scream queen used with her family. "I knew my dad had an issue because I had an issue," Curtis revealed. "He and I shared drugs... I did cocaine and freebased once with my dad. But that was the only time I did that, and I did that with him."

The good news is that today things are good. Curtis is careful, clean, and mindful. She asks hotels to remove minibars before check-in, and she makes sobriety work for her. "If there are no recovery meetings available [when I travel], I make them. I put a sign up by the catering truck saying, 'Recovery meeting in my trailer," she said.

“I’m breaking the cycle that has basically destroyed the lives of generations in my family,” Curtis told People. “Getting sober remains my single greatest accomplishment… 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 alcoholism and/or addiction, contact the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration at 1-800-662-HELP.

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