Jamie Lee Curtis Says Recovery From Drug Addiction Is Her 'Single Greatest Accomplishment'

By PopEater Staff Posted Sep 7th 2010 01:07PM

While Jamie Lee Curtis won't discuss her 'Freaky Friday' co-star Lindsay Lohan's recent troubles, she was willing to open up about her own struggle with drug addiction during an interview with Meredith Vieira on NBC's 'Today' show.

"My recovery is the single greatest accomplishment of my life. And without that, the rest of my life would have fallen apart," Curtis, who appeared to promoted her new book, 'My Mommy Hung the Moon,' said.

When asked how she succeeded, the actress chalked it up to "the miracle of recovery." Watch:

"Some people get it. Robert Downey Jr. was in prison for a year. And he is not only the greatest movie star in the world, he's a fantastic representative of someone who can repair the damage of their life. Recovery is an acceptance that your life is in a shambles and you have to change it. I was lucky, I didn't have to lose anything," she explained.

"Recovery and motherhood are the two single greatest things in my life," Curtis added.

In the wake of Michael Jackson's death last year, Curtis admitted in a Huffington Post blog that she had once been addicted to painkillers.

"I too found painkillers after a routine cosmetic surgical procedure and I too became addicted, the morphine becomes the warm bath from which to escape painful reality. I was a lucky one. I was able to see that the pain had started long ago and far away and that the finding the narcotic was merely a matter of time," she wrote.

In an interview with More magazine (via The New York Daily News), the 'You Again' star revealed she became addicted to pills at the age of 35. "No one knew," she said of her troubles.

In the same interview, the 51-year-old revealed that she also drank to ease the "loneliness" she felt and that many of her issues were caused by the pressure to be young and thin in Hollywood.

Curtis has now been sober for over 10 years.

Tags: Jamie Lee Curtis, lindsay lohan, robert downey jr.

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Tuesday 07 September

By Jack

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It is hard to have any sympathy for someone who was a top box office star like Jamie Lee. It shows a total lack of gratitude for what she had. This is where religion fits in. Without religion, one can never be satisfied. With religion, a peanut butter and jelly sandwich is a gift from God to be relished.

By DAVID

I remember back in the 80`s when I use to BANG Jamie on a weekly basis,we were like nympho rabbits with each other,she was my awesome pony rider and I was her mattress monkey,I really miss her,I will always love you Jamie,DAVID

Wednesday 08 September

By MUD

Who Care's!

By mojo

jamie lee used to be the hottest babe in hollywood until she started cutting her hair like a boy. anyway good job. keep it green. 11/20/85

duh getting clean automatically makes you a better parent 99% of the time

By Maria

Love Jamie Lee Curtis since "A fish called Wanda"; but as for Activa; Rotgut. Has anyone noticed the ad where the guy is saying this is great while he looks like he's getting ready to throw up.

By Louise Foreman

Great job Jamie Lee, I love all your movies and thing you are a great actress. I agree that saying I'am sorry isn't good enough, just stay straight. The best thing that my dad told me is to always be true to your self.

By steven

She's lucky alright that Activia keeps throwing money AT HER. What would she do if she had to get a real job? Be depressed and take drugs?

By fkurtin

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What a doll, and still hot too

When she did the movie (true lies) I had to be handcuffed behind my back

By jen

Please, please, please Jamie grow your hair and put some color in it. You would look ten years younger. Someone is giving you some bad advice, your hair is making you look metrosexual, not attractive..

By lipanconjuring

Maybe she doesn't care about impressing you.

By 90210

Jamie Lee Curtis is the only woman in Hollywood that I've ever been jealous of....for years! She's married to that delicious English Lord and they make a lovely couple.

By gene

I have always liked Jamie Lee, as well as her parents. They are talented people, but even the talented can get caught up in that drug maelstrom. Today our younger element of society legitimizes recreational drug use. They consider themselves bullet proof. I consider them 12-step candidates. Jamie did the right thing to reclaim her life and amend her life for her children. I still like Jamie Lee.

By Maggie

I always love seeing Jamie Lee Curtis....she is so real and down to earth.

By Men in Black

Who? cares!

By MtnMan

Robert Downey, the greatest movie star in the world? I think Jamie Lee is still high on something.

By BunnyD0g

Way to go Jamie Lee!!!
And keep up the good work!
The battle is never over, but you fight it daily.

By Sylvia

I think people who use this forum to advertise their crappy web sites should be excluded and not allowed to use it again.

By Satonica

@By bumpa

Ok, do you think her husband, Christopher Guest, whom she married in 1984 (over a quarter of a century ago), just does the gardening? You're ridiculous. LOTS of couples adobt. Climb back under your rock.

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