Actress Jamie Lee Curtis Reveals Her Drug Addiction To Painkillers

Posted on July 22, 2009

Actress Jamie Lee Curtis recently revealed she battled an addiction to painkillers at one time. Read more on what Curtis has to say about drug addiction and her thoughts on Michael Jackson’s painkiller dependency.

Jamie Lee Curtis had cosmetic surgery and found herself addicted to the painkiller morphine.

“I too found painkillers after a routine cosmetic surgical procedure and I too became addicted,” Curtis, 50, writes 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.”

But Curtis beat her drug addiction and said, “My recovery from drug addiction is the single greatest accomplishment of my life,” she writes. “But it takes work – hard, painful work.”

Jamie Lee empathizes with Michael Jackson. “I believe Mr. Jackson was in pain,” she writes. “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.”

Click Thumbnails for Larger Pictures