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.