Jamie Lee Curtis has attained a major milestone in her sobriety.
The “Halloween” star took to Instagram Saturday to celebrate 25 many years of staying “cleanse and sober,” and also shared a information for all people struggling with habit.
“25 decades clean up and sober. One working day at a time. 9,125 of them,” Curtis wrote on Instagram. “What is actually inside of, as my old buddy Adam sang, is a sense of quiet, serenity, goal and the finest experience that I am not alone. That a lot of other people share the identical disease and option. For all people battling with dependancy and disgrace, there are many others out here who care. My hand in yours. Our arms in yours. XO JLC”
Earlier this yr, Curtis sat down with “Nowadays” to converse about her future milestone, expressing: “I’m sober for a extended time, prolonged time — just about 25 yrs. And the ideal thing I realized previous yr in restoration was men and women aren’t happy when you cease folks-satisfying. … It was as if the finest sage arrived on me.”
“So I’m trying to have it. Is not that what life is intended to be?” Curtis continued. “We improve up, we understand, we do all these issues. Now we have to possess it. We have to possess who we are, be who we are, and be in total acceptance of who we are and what we’re not. And I think that is the elegance of me correct now — proudly owning it.”
Curtis has reported she developed an addiction to opiates after plastic surgery on her eyes in the 1980s, according to These days.com, and then struggled for a decade before obtaining sober in 1999.
In her identical sit-down with “These days” on Jan. 16, Curtis also talked about what it has been like for her because turning 65 previous November.
“Sixty-five is a minute of reflection and exhilaration,” Curtis explained to host Hoda Kotb. “I’m considerably fewer really hard on myself. I’m very much in acceptance of what I appear like and I have what I believe and sense. And that, to me, is what maturity is. You have what you assume and truly feel. I say what I signify. I suggest what I say. I try out not to say it signify. And that is a way then to develop into my aged age.”
Previous calendar year, 2023, was also a sizeable 12 months for Curtis for yet another motive: She won an Academy Award for her part in “Anything Everywhere you go All at The moment.”
Jamie Lee Curtis has gained her very first Oscar at the 2023 Academy Awards. On Sunday night, the 64-calendar year-old actress won for Best Supporting Actress for her part in “Anything In all places All At After.”
In her emotional and teary-eyed acceptance speech, Curtis thanked “the hundreds” of people who aided her along the way.
“I know it appears like I am standing up right here by myself, but I am not,” Curtis reported in the speech. “I am hundreds of persons.”
She then went on to title persons who also labored on the movie and assisted her throughout her job, prior to thanking her family members after. In unique, she thanked her late moms and dads, Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, who have been both actors nominated for Academy Awards themselves.
“And my mom and my father, who were each nominated for Oscars in distinctive types. I just won an Oscar!” Curtis said.
