Jamie Lee Curtis talks about the 10-year pain addiction "Nobody knew it"

Jamie Lee Curtis fought on screen with a lot of monsters on the screen, but she overcomes her own demons which she is most proud of.

The actress "Halloween" has been sober for almost 20 years, but she remembers a difficult time in her life during which she suffered from an opioid addiction that took her away from her friends and family .

After taking a liking to painkillers as a result of an aesthetic operation for "hereditary puffy eyes" in their mid-thirties, the actress found herself in an infernal spiral. She has also become addicted to alcohol.

"I was ahead of the opioid epidemic," Curtis told People magazine about its fight against sobriety. "I had a 10-year run, steal, connivance. Nobody knew. Nobody."

Curtis reached the bottom when she stole the pills to her sister Kelly, also an actress, who was recovering from a broken bone at the time. She later confessed to her sister a letter she never sent, but now has the emblem to remind her of how much she has arrived.

The star of "Freaky Friday" grew up in a family marked by addiction. His father, actor Tony Curtis, famously consumed various substances during his later years, while his brother Nicholas died of a heroin overdose in 1994.

"I break the cycle that has basically destroyed the lives of generations in my family," said Curtis. "Being sober is my greatest achievement … bigger than my husband, bigger than my two kids and bigger than any job, success, failure. No matter what. "

At the time of his own struggles, Curtis was married to the actor Christopher Guest, who, she says, was not aware of her addiction issues until she reveals the day she went to her first recovery meeting.

The couple now share two grown children, Anne and Thomas.

Curtis has already explained how Hollywood's toxic beauty standards were a "big booster" for her addiction after a cameraman told her that she was developing puffiness under her eyes.

"I tried different types of plastic surgery, but meticulously enough to ward off this middle-aged poisoned body," she told More magazine in 2008. "And every time I did, something was wrong. I felt deformed, I was no longer natural, I anesthetized daily. "

Curtis has since worked on anti-drug campaigns and regularly attends meetings where she advises other drug addicts.

"At recovery meetings, anyone who raises opiates, the whole room will turn to look at me," she told People. "I'll be like," Oh here, talk to me. I am the opiate girl.