Jason Biggs has opened up about getting sober after an “absolutely insane” battle with cocaine dependancy.
The “American Pie” star, 47, mentioned his years-long struggle with medication and alcohol throughout a current look on the “Well with Arielle Lorre” podcast.
Biggs, who has been sober for greater than seven years, blamed his earlier battles with substance abuse on “being 22 with money in the bank and coke in my pocket and no one saying no to me.”
The “Saving Silverman” actor additionally admitted that in 2008, when he was 30 and had simply married his spouse, Jenny Mollen, he was “blocking everything out with drugs and alcohol” as his addictions “just got worse and worse.”
Biggs hit all-time low shortly after when he “climbed into the trash bin” to do cocaine after throwing the medication away in an effort to give up. It was 4 a.m., and his spouse was asleep.
“I lived in the gray area, but I have ‘snorting dust off the floor’ stories or similar to that,” he stated on Wednesday. “One of my craziest stories was, I was doing cocaine by myself in my house, and I did what I said was the last line.”
“Within 15 minutes, as soon as my last bump is wearing off, I’m like, ‘What am I doing?’” he continued. “I go into my trash, and I take it out, and I do a line.”
The identical factor occurred when the “Jersey Girl” actor threw his medication away once more in one other try to cease utilizing. Biggs went inside to take a sleeping tablet, solely to return exterior to get well the cocaine he had simply thrown away.
“Before I took the Ambien, I was like, ‘One more,’” he advised Lorre. “I went outside, and I climbed into the trash bin and got the bag of coke and went upstairs and did another line.”
“I was like, ‘What the f–k am I doing? This is absolutely insane,’” Biggs added.
Biggs additionally famous that he critically struggled with sobriety whereas residing in Los Angeles.
“I would find myself alone and isolating, and I would find myself breaking whatever sobriety I had,” he admitted. “It was incredibly fragile, obviously, in those early days.”
It wasn’t till Biggs and his spouse moved to New York Metropolis in 2015 that the “Orange Is the New Black” actor was in a position to give up medication and alcohol and get sober.
“There’s something about the energy of New York that gives me something, that fills me in a way that Los Angeles couldn’t,” he acknowledged through the podcast.
“But I do believe coming to New York helped me,” Biggs added. “So, I did fall off the wagon here, but that was seven and a half years ago, and it’s been going well.”
