{"id":1472301,"date":"2022-05-11T19:14:35","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T23:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1472301"},"modified":"2022-05-11T19:14:39","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T23:14:39","slug":"i-dont-know-if-i-wouldve-survived-childhood-without-alcoholism-selma-blair-opens-up-about-decades-long-struggle-with-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-dont-know-if-i-wouldve-survived-childhood-without-alcoholism-selma-blair-opens-up-about-decades-long-struggle-with-addiction\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I Don\u2019t Know If I Would\u2019ve Survived Childhood Without Alcoholism\u2019: Selma Blair Opens Up About Decades-Long Struggle With Addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fi-dont-know-if-i-wouldve-survived-childhood-without-alcoholism-selma-blair-opens-up-about-decades-long-struggle-with-addiction%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1472301&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/Selma-Blair-2.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Actress Selma Blair said she\u2019s not sure she \u201cwould\u2019ve survived childhood without alcoholism\u201d as she opened up about her decades-long struggle with addiction after having her first drink at the age of 7.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/actress-selma-blair-wore-head-wrap-and-defending-frank-camp\">49-year-old actress<\/a> detailed her battle with alcohol in her new memoir, titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mean-Baby-Memoir-Growing-Up\/dp\/0525659498\">Mean Baby: A Memoir Of Growing Up,<\/a>\u201d in which she talked about how drinking was \u201ca huge comfort\u201d and \u201ccoping mechanism\u201d for her at a young age, and said she doesn\u2019t \u201cknow if I would\u2019ve survived childhood without alcoholism,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/movies\/selma-blair-new-memoir-exclusive\/?did=778304-20220511&#038;utm_campaign=people-news_newsletter&#038;utm_source=people.com&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_content=051122&#038;cid=778304&#038;mid=86966707943\">reported<\/a> People magazine in a piece published Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first time I got drunk it was a revelation,\u201d Blair shared in an excerpt obtained by the magazine. \u201cI 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought \u2018Well this is a huge disappointment, but since it turns out I can get the warmth of the Lord from a bottle, thank God there\u2019s one right here,\u2019\u201d she added. \u201cI got drunk that night. Very drunk. Eventually, I was put in my sister Katie\u2019s bed with her. In the morning, I didn\u2019t remember how I\u2019d gotten there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cLegally Blonde\u201d star said that in the beginning, she just took \u201cquick sips whenever my anxiety would alight\u201d and\u00a0\u201cusually barely even got tipsy.\u201d She also talked about how she \u201cbecame an expert alcoholic, adept at hiding my secret.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Selma Blair&#8217;s Stunning New Memoir Reveals Decades of Alcoholism\u2014and First Getting Drunk at Age 7 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eRBdfNBOcw\">https:\/\/t.co\/eRBdfNBOcw<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jaSb2FRCDL\">pic.twitter.com\/jaSb2FRCDL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 People (@people) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/people\/status\/1524330676325163009?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The \u201cHellboy\u201d star said she kept drinking through her teens and into her college years. One excerpt details how she says she was sexually assaulted on a college trip after a day of binge drinking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know if both of them raped me. One of them definitely did,\u201d Selma wrote, per the outlet. \u201cI made myself small and quiet and waited for it to be over. I wish I could say what happened to me that night was an anomaly, but it wasn\u2019t. I have been raped, multiple times, because I was too drunk to say the words \u2018Please. Stop.\u2019 Only that one time was violent. I came out of each event quiet and ashamed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Blair said that opening up in the memoir about her experiences was one of the things that helped her finally be able to heal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy sense of trauma was bigger than I knew,\u201d the actress shared. \u201cI did not realize that assault was so central in my life. I had so much shame and blame. I\u2019m grateful I felt safe enough to put it on the page. And then can work on it with a therapist and with other writing, and really relieve that burden of shame on myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cCruel Intentions\u201d star has been sober since 2016, and said she\u2019s now sharing her story in hopes that it helps others struggling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actress Selma Blair said she\u2019s not sure she \u201cwould\u2019ve survived childhood without alcoholism\u201d as she opened up about her decades-long struggle with addiction after having her first drink at the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":1482669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1472301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1472301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1482669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1472301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1472301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1472301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}