Jason Biggs Details Getting Cocaine From Trash Can Amid Addiction
Originally appeared on E! Online
Jason Biggs is getting candid about a low moment.
The American Pie alum, who has been open about his addiction journey over the years, recently recalled a time from the height of his struggles in which he repeatedly retrieved drugs from the trash can.
“I lived in the gray area, but I have ‘snorting dust off the floor’ stories or similar to that,” Jason told Arielle Lorre on the June 4 episode of her Well podcas t. “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 went on to say his wife, Jenny Mullen , was asleep upstairs and she “didn’t even know” he was awake and taking drugs, and in an effort to get himself to go to bed he put the rest of the cocaine into their trash can.
“Within 15 minutes, as soon as my last bump is wearing off, what am I doing?” Jason remembered. “I go into my trash, and I take it out and I do a line.”
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Afterwards, he instead put the rest of the cocaine into the trash can in front of his house, telling himself, “OK, I’m done,” before going back inside and intending to take an Ambien to help him sleep.
“Before I took the Ambien, I was like, ‘One more,’” he said. “I went outside and I climbed into the trash bin and got the bag of coke and went upstairs and did another line. I was like, ‘What the f--k am I doing? This is absolutely insane.’”
This time, the Orange Is The New Black alum—who shares Sid , 11, and Lazlo , 7, with Jenny—said he drove down Sunset Boulevard to dispose of the cocaine in a trash can down there, going so far as to put the bag in a coffee cup that still had coffee inside. Yet, as he detailed, when his last bump wore off he once again found himself driving back to the trash can and retrieving the drugs.
“I could have easily opened the baggie and dumped it down the toilet, but I didn’t,” he said. “That’s too final. I knew I was going to finish that bag the moment I got it, but I kept playing this game with myself. That was very close to rock bottom.”
And at the time, the 47-year-old’s life was consumed by his addiction.
“For me, it was the obsession over it,” he explained. “It was wake up and immediately think, ‘How am I going to get my first line?’ to ‘When is this going to happen? What do I have today?’”
In fact, he planned his schedule around when he could take drugs, adding, “It was exhausting and I was sort of consumed mentally.”
Now sober for more than seven years, Jason can look back and see how much happier he is, calling sobriety “freeing.”
“There is a freedom,” he explained, “that comes with not having to do those things anymore.”
For more celebrities who have been candid about their sobriety journeys, keep reading.
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