Selma Blair spoke about her decades-long battle with alcohol addiction for the first time in her new memoir: 'I don't know if I would've survived childhood without alcoholism.'
, and the traumatic events she's experienced as a result.
In her new book out next week, the actress who was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 2018 opens up about her drinking problem, which began when she got drunk for the first time at just seven years old, as well as her two suicide attempts and multiple sexual assaults. “I don't know if I would've survived childhood without alcoholism,” Blair confessed in an interview with. “That's why it's such a problem for a lot of people.
In an excerpt from the memoir, she writes, “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.
Her addiction worsened, however, as she entered her teens and early 20s. Blair disclosed one particularly traumatizing instance during a spring break trip in college where she was raped after a day of binge drinking. “I don't know if both of them raped me. One of them definitely did,” she wrote. “I 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't.
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