Comments (0)Jamie Lee Curtis
Jamie’s Admission
July 24, 2009
In the wake of Michael Jackson’s sudden death, Jamie Lee Curtis recently spoke publicly about her own onetime addiction to painkillers.
“I too found painkillers after a routine cosmetic surgical procedure, and I too became addicted,” Curtis, 50, wrote in a blog for the Huffington Post. “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. …
“My recovery from drug addiction is the single greatest accomplishment of my life,” she wrote. “But it takes work – hard, painful work.
”I believe Mr. Jackson was in pain. Mr. Jackson was an addict. It is coming out. Everywhere. He wanted relief and would get it in any name, place or method he could. It was and is a conspiracy of silence, and I’m sure there were attempts to intervene and I’m sure his family and friends tried ... but the addict gets what the addict wants, relief from the pain of their life.”