Jamie Lee Curtis is opening up about a dark period in her past.
The Halloween star, 59, tells People that she’s lucky to have survived a secret addiction to opiates that began in the late ’80s.
“I was ahead of the curve of the opiate epidemic,” Curtis says in this week’s cover story. “I had a 10-year run, stealing, conniving. No one knew. No one.”
Curtis has a long family history of addiction. Her father, Some Like It Hot actor Tony Curtis, abused alcohol, cocaine and heroin. Her half-brother Nicholas Curtis died from a heroin overdose in 1994.
The actress...
The Halloween star, 59, tells People that she’s lucky to have survived a secret addiction to opiates that began in the late ’80s.
“I was ahead of the curve of the opiate epidemic,” Curtis says in this week’s cover story. “I had a 10-year run, stealing, conniving. No one knew. No one.”
Curtis has a long family history of addiction. Her father, Some Like It Hot actor Tony Curtis, abused alcohol, cocaine and heroin. Her half-brother Nicholas Curtis died from a heroin overdose in 1994.
The actress...
- 10/24/2018
- by Alexia Fernandez, Johnny Dodd
- PEOPLE.com
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