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Jamie Lee Curtis having been moved by witnessing the tragic passing of Michael Jackson has confessed to her own former addiction to painkillers.
In a blog for the Huffington Post today, Curtis wrote: We’re being shown now, in the weeks following Mr. Jackson’s death, the supposed headwaters of his river of pain, the accident with Pepsi and the literal head on fire. It is a harrowing image, flames leaping off his head seconds before others came to his rescue."
“The explanation is that this moment was the drug start point that eventually took over his life. I don’t believe it. The pain he suffered was from his birth, from his being and becoming the commodity that then made him the omnipotent King of the Pop-Goes-The-Weasel-Jacko-In-The-Neverland-Box that destroyed him."
“Listen, I can relate. I too found painkillers after a routine cosmetic surgical procedure and I too became addicted, the morphine becomes the warm bath from which to escape painful reality. I was a lucky one,” the Halloween star writes candidly. “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. The pain needed numbing.”
“My recovery from drug addiction is the single greatest accomplishment of my life… but it takes work — hard, painful work — but the help is there, in every town and career, drug/drink freed members of society, from every single walk and talk of life to help and guide…”
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