Winona Ryder Resurfaces, Blames Her Shoplifting Habit On Painkiller Addiction

"The attention was what was embarrassing," she tells Vogue. "It was the December after Sept. 11. ... So much attention was being paid to me, when we had just been attacked, and there was all this really important news going on."

She describes what was happening before the arrest. "Two months prior to that, I broke my arm in two places, and the doctor ... was giving me a lot of stuff (Oxycodone, not to be confused with OxyContin), and I was taking it at first to get through the pain. And then there was this weird point when you don't know if you are in pain but you're taking it." She continues: "Have you ever taken painkillers? It isn't a reckless (state), like you're out of your head. It's just confusion."

Her family supported her. "No one (in my family) ever got angry with me. Concerned, yes, but not concerned with a drug problem or anything. Because after that night I pretty much didn't ever. ... If you are ever arrested, you can't ever do that again," she says.

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