Noah Cyrus Shares She's Been 'in Recovery' for 2 Years Due to Xanax Addiction
etonline.comNoah Cyrus is opening up her battle with addiction. In a new interview with , the 22-year-old singer reveals for the first time that she's been in recovery for a Xanax addiction for two years.Cyrus says that she first tried Xanax when she was 18, when her then-boyfriend offered her the drug, which is often prescribed for anxiety and panic attacks.«My boyfriend at the time, when I was 18, was the first person that gave me a Xanax, and it became a way for us to bond,» she tells the outlet. «I think I wanted to fit in with him.
I wanted to be what he wanted and what he thought was cool and what I thought everybody was doing.»In addition to taking the drug to fit in, Cyrus says, «Once I felt that it was possible to silence things out for a second and numb your pain, it was over.»Cyrus was able to feel the effects of the drug with little to no effort, as it was easily acquired by people in her circle.«I was surrounded by people who were easily able to get it by buying it from people,» she says.But soon, her Xanax use become «this dark pit, bottomless pit,» in which she'd sleep all day, didn't know which day was which, and struggled with memory issues.
When COVID-19 hit in 2020, Cyrus' addiction was at its worst; she started to pass out in the middle of an interview and grappled with the death of her maternal grandmother, to whom she didn't get to say goodbye.«I felt so guilty for not being there when my grandma died,» she says. «I was there physically, but emotionally, I was not there.
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