In a candid, personal essay for Huffington Post, Jamie Lee Curtis revealed that she is in recovery from opiate addiction.
“I too, waited anxiously for a prescription to be filled for the opiate I was secretly addicted to,” Curtis, 57, wrote. “I too, took too many at once…to kill emotional and physical pain…”
Curtis, now sober for 17 years, decided to speak publicly about her addiction in the wake of Prince’s death. Authorities are investigating the music icon’s passing as a possible opiate overdose.
“Let’s work harder, look closer and do everything we can not to enable and in doing so, disable, our loved ones who are ill,” Curtis finished.
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