Particle.news
Download on the App Store

Jamie Lee Curtis Marks 27 Years Sober, Credits Richard Lewis in Candid Post

She describes peer support as the turning point that introduced her to a recovery community.

Overview

  • Posting on Instagram on February 3, the 67-year-old actor thanked the late Richard Lewis for taking her hand when she first sought help.
  • She wrote that meeting people who shared addiction and recovery experiences "changed everything" and called addiction a "daily prison."
  • Curtis said she tries to extend the same help to others and tagged recovery groups Clare Foundation and Friendly House LA.
  • Celebrity friends including Rita Wilson, Uzo Aduba and Tracee Ellis Ross left supportive comments celebrating her 27-year milestone.
  • Coverage notes her past dependence on painkillers and alcohol dating to 1989 and a family history that includes her father’s substance struggles and her brother Nicholas’s fatal overdose.