Jamie Lee Curtis Celebrates 25 Years of Sobriety
By Movieguide® Contributor
Jamie Lee Curtis celebrated 25 years of sobriety at the beginning of February.
“25 years clean and sober. One day at a time. 9,125 of them,” Curtis posted on Instagram. “What’s inside, as my old friend Adam sang, is a sense of calm, serenity, purpose and the greatest feeling that I am not alone. That many others share the same disease and solution. For all those struggling with addiction and shame, there are others out here who care. My hand on yours. Our hands on yours.”
Curtis first began attending recovery meetings in 1999 after over a decade of alcohol addiction and opioid misuse. Though her addictions were out of control, she had managed to hide them from everyone, including her husband, who found out the day she started recovery.
Addiction has been a longstanding cycle in Curtis’ family. Being the one to break the cycle has been a major motivation in her fight for sobriety.
“I’m breaking the cycle that has basically destroyed the lives of generations in my family,” Curtis told PEOPLE in 2018. “Getting sober remains my single greatest accomplishment…bigger than my husband, bigger than both of my children and bigger than any work, success, failure. Anything.”
“With God’s grace and the support of MANY people who could relate to all the ‘feelings’ and couple of sober angels… I’ve been able to stay sober, one day at a time, for 22 years,” she added in 2021.
A major part of Curtis’ journey has been helping others find sobriety. Even from the start, she held meetings to keep herself and those around her accountable.
“I bring sobriety with me,” Curtis told Variety in 2019. “I have attended recovery meetings all over this world. I was probably about nine months sober when I made FREAKY FRIDAY. I put a big sign up by the catering truck, and it said, ‘Recovery meeting in Jamie’s trailer every day.’”
“I let the door open and didn’t know if anybody would show up. We ended up calling it the Mobile Home Recovery Meeting. It was probably my favorite grouping of sobriety that I’ve ever participated in,” she continued. “I’ve participated in groups all over the world, but there was something about the cross section of ages and genders and jobs and races, and it was profound.”
Movieguide® previously reported:
In 2019, Curtis opened up about her life as an addict in Variety’s “The Recovery Issue.”
Curtis said her addiction to painkillers began in her 20s after she was prescribed Vicodin post-cosmetic surgery. However, Curtis said someone found out after she took five pills with her wine.
“The jig was up,” Curtis said. “Now I knew someone knew. I had been nursing a secret Vicodin addiction for a very long time — over 10 years.”
Curtis attended her first recovery meeting in February 1999.
“I was terrified [of being recognized]. I was just terrified that someone in the recovery community was going to betray my trust,” Curtis confessed. “But it is my experience that that doesn’t really happen and that my fear was unfounded.”
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