“Taking drugs is one thing, but does it start taking you?” he wondered to Apple Music's Zane Lowe.
The “Halloween” star called herself “incredibly lucky.”
“I’m grateful to still be here, I’m grateful to be alive really every day,” said Quaid. “It’s important to really enjoy your ride in life as much as you can.”
“It’s been worth every second,” she said of her sobriety. “I just don’t know what it would take for me to give it up. I’m stable. I’m calmer.”
"Why did it take over 25 trips to the ER and countless near-death experiences to find this help?"
The Oscar-winning actor, who has been frank about her experiences with addiction in the past, said the stroke was brought on by a drug overdose.
"My identity as a housewife married to a lawyer and a woman who played tennis, hosted playgroups and volunteered with the PTA was gone."
“I know I can’t keep this cycle up much longer, but today is very important. I have to convince Dr. Linbaum to approve my second refill.“
"Instead of using those first few months to bond with my son, I chose to sit in our bedroom drinking myself into oblivion."
"What about women like me whose lives looked fine, even enviable from the outside, but they were dying on the inside?"