Selma Blair Says Her Alcoholism Started at Age 7, Details Surviving Multiple Sexual Assaults

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Zack Sharf Selma Blair has been an open book in recent years when it comes to discussing her multiple sclerosis diagnosis, but she shares even more about her life battles in her new memoir “Mean Baby.” People magazine debuted experts from the book, in which the “Cruel Intentions” and “Legally Blonde” actor reveals her alcohol addiction developed after she started drinking at 7 years old.

Blair has been sober since 2016.“The first time I got drunk it was a revelation,” Blair writes in the memoir (via People). “I always liked Passover.

As I took small sips of the Manischewitz I was allowed throughout the seder a light flooded through me, filling me up with the warmth of God.

But the year I was seven, when we basically had Manischewitz on tap and no one was paying attention to my consumption level, I put it together: the feeling was not God but fermentation.