Selma Blair is opening up about her battle with alcoholism. The actress spoke with People about her new memoir Mean Baby, which recounts her decades-long alcohol addiction as well as traumatic events that happened in her childhood and adolescence. Click inside to read more… “I don’t know if I would’ve survived childhood without alcoholism,” she told the outlet. “That’s why it’s such a problem for a lot of people.
It really is a huge comfort, a huge relief in the beginning. Maybe even the first few years for me because I did start really young with that as a comfort, as my coping mechanism.” Selma writes in her book, “The first time I got drunk it was a revelation.
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.
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