Minnie Driver relieved she avoided 'drug addiction or having 5 husbands' after career woes

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Minnie continued: “That was a bar tab I ran that would eventually have gotten paid, and I was lucky to, I think, come out the other side of it - not addicted to drugs or having five husbands, or tons of plastic surgery.“Like, I actually feel like I survived giving up myself, being terrible, remembering it and coming out the other end of the tunnel.”When asked how she thought she had “paid that bar tab,” Minnie revealed: “When you are living in that place of exaltation and every film you do people love, and people love you, and your phone doesn’t stop ringing, and you’re working all the time, there’s an association of yourself as a human being with that success.“But it’s a trick, it's sleight of hand.

It’s what Hollywood does, which is making you believe that that ephemeral thing is solid and real, when in actual fact it’s a manteau that is really wonderful to put on, but then you very consciously need to take it off and connect back with who you actually are.“And I just didn’t do that.

I just wanted to be that thing that was loved and exalted because it felt so wonderful to not have to deal with all my insecurities and who I actually was.“But all careers have ebbs and flows and when the work stops coming as quickly as it had before, you’re faced with yourself, who’s basically been shut in a room for however many years I put her away.

And you have to deal with that.”Minnie recently opened up on her devastation after finding out Andrew Lloyd Webber had not chosen her to perform the Phantom of the Opera songs at the Academy Awards - despite starring in one of his films.Speaking to Jermaine Jenas and Alex Jones on The One Show last month, Minnie recounted the moment she found out Beyonce would be singing instead of her.She.