American Pie alum Jason Biggs is speaking out on the moment he hit rock bottom during the height of his drug addiction.
The 47-year old actor, who’s been candid when discussing his recovery journey, recently detailed a time when he resorted to climbing into a trash can to snort cocaine.
“One of my craziest stories was I was doing cocaine by myself in my house, and I did what I said was the last line,” he shared on the latest episode of Arielle Lorre’s Well podcast.
Biggs explained that his wife, Jenny Mollen, was asleep upstairs, unaware that he was still awake and doing drugs at 4am. In an effort to get himself to stop and go to bed, he threw the rest of the cocaine into the garbage.
Within 15 minutes, however, the last bump was “wearing off,” so Biggs pulled the coke out of the garbage and did another line. He then went outside tossed the remainder into the large trash bin outside their house.
“OK, I’m done,” he recalled telling himself before heading back inside to take a sleeping pill. But again, within minutes, the urge for more coke kicked in.
“I went outside and I climbed into the trash bin and got the bag of coke and went upstairs and did another line,” Biggs said. “I was like, ‘What the f–- am I doing? This is absolutely insane.’”
The New Jersey native, whose substance abuse dates back 25 years to the peak of American Pie popularity, has now been sober since 2017 after multiple attempts to get clean.
“After some fits and starts, I’ve managed to put together one year of sobriety,” he wrote on Instagram in 2018. “I’m as proud of it as anything in my life. If you’re struggling, know there’s help. Don’t be ashamed. We can do this.” – New York Daily News/Tribune News Service
