Jamie Lee Curtis has been sober for more than 20 years - why she sees it as her 'legacy'

Jamie Lee Curtis has been sober for more than 20 years - why she sees it as her 'legacy'

Jamie Lee Curtis knows what her legacy will be.

Speaking to Colin Farrell as part of Variety's Actors on Actors series, Curtis spoke candidly about sobriety in relation to her recent film Everything Everywhere All at Once; Farrell's new film The Banshees of Inisherin; and her private life.

"Being sober will certainly be a legacy," said Curtis. "Because I stop what was a generation problem in my biological family. It will be the greatest thing I do when I can stay sober. Because the life of generations of people of alcoholism and drug addiction has been dominated and ruined. For me, sobriety is always in the top."

Curtis has spoken about her sobriety in the past. In fact, she celebrated 22 years of sobriety with an Instagram post in February 2021, which contained a caption for her experience and a relapse photo.

"A long time ago ... in a wide, distant galaxy ... I was a young star with myself in the war," she wrote at the time. "Back then I didn't know. I hunted everything. I kept it hidden. I was [as] sick as my secrets."

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Curtis continued to become sober with the description of what helped her. "With God's grace and the support of many people who could refer to all the 'feelings' and a few sober angels ... I was able to stay sober every day for 22 years," she said. "To everyone who fights and those who are on the way ... my hand in hers," she added and referred to her shop, which benefits the Children’s Hospital La

The actress has also been open about her past addiction to painkillers, as well as her family history of addiction. After minor plastic surgery in 1989, she was prescribed opiates and struggled with addiction to painkillers for the next decade.

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"I break through the circulation that has basically destroyed the life of generations in my family," said Curtis about her sobriety in 2018. "My greatest achievement remains… greater than my husband, bigger than my two children and greater than any work, success."