Former `Grace Under Fire’ Star Says She is Homeless [Video]

 LOS ANGELES, Calif.–Comedian Brett Butler, who starred in the popular ABC sitcom, ”Grace Under Fire” for five years, recently revealed that she is homeless.

Butler says she struggled with substance abuse while starring on the Chuck Lorre created show that was in the top ten from 1993-98.

At the height of her career, she was asked to leave the set because of her drug use, and the show was abruptly canceled.

The two-time Golden Globe nominated actress says she almost died like Michael Jackson….”I was dying of addiction,” she said in an interview with Entertainment Tonight’s Nancy O’Dell.

"I did everything but crack and needles pretty much," she added. "I had a variety of things given to me by doctor, and other things. I'm not doing it to be coy, but I'm not going to go through what I did. I did it 'til the wheels came off."

Following several stints in and out of rehab, Butler sold her Los Angeles home and headed east to a farm in Georgia where she lived with her 15 pets until the money ran out and now finds her in a homeless shelter.

Butler admits a lot of regret  for the way she acted while at the top of her career and hope that people will forgive her for “making someone’s day miserable over the choice of words in a 22-minute show.

“A lot of times, I'd be an ass and didn't even think I was. Like, I'd call my managers and go, 'There's a while limo out here for an awards show,' and he'd say, 'Don't get in it,'" she said. "And he should have said, 'you ungrateful cracker, go get in the car. Go to the show, and they'll drop you out back.'"

Throughout it all, Butler remains optimistic of the future and says she is in the process of developing a reality TV show about her self-professed psychic abilities which she will debut at the Downtown Comedy Club in Los Angeles this weekend.

"I really feel like an old dog, though," she said. "It's almost like I was a horse that ran in the derby once. The kids are coming up and going, 'Are you still doing this?' I think it's something to do with me living through it."

"I don't think about what I survived," she said. "I hope I forgive. I hope I'm forgiven, and I'm just really glad that I think things are funny and there's no end to that."