PRODUCT IS BEING DESCRIBED AS
THE KEY HE RIGGED FOR COCKTAILS
WILL BE SIPPING WITH AWESOME
COCKTAILS ALSO GOT THOSE OF THE
SEA HE LATER ON FACT IT'S GOING
TO MAKE THAT PROCESS AND A
SPECIAL ISSUE OF VARIETY, THE
HOLLYWOOD A LISTERS
TALK ABOUT ADDICTION GETTING
CLEAN AND EVEN GIVING BACK TO
THE CURTIS HAD
TO SING CREDIBLE STORY ON THE
COVER UP THE RECOVERY ISSUE AND
SHE OPENED UP THE MAGAZINE ALL
ABOUT HER STRUGGLES ON THE WAY
TO SOBRIETY TAKE A LOOK AT
THIS.
>> I'M SOBER TODAY.
>> WHY DID HE SUFFER FOR THE
REST OF MY LIFE I HOPE DO
EVERYTHING I CAN TO BE BUT I'M
SAYING I AM AN END. AND I'M IN
RECOVERY
AND I.
>> WORK HARD GOOD PROGRAM AND I
I PAY A LOT OF ATTENTION TO IT,
BUT IT'S A
MISSIONS DISEASE.
>> AND JOINING US NOW IS MARC
MALKIN SENIOR FILM AWARDS
EVENTS AND LIFESTYLE EDITOR
OVER AT VARIETY.
>> ALL RIGHT YOU I COULD
STOMACH WHEN YOU WERE WORKING
ON THE ISSUE WAS
ULTIMATELY MESSAGE THAT YOU
WANT TO GET ACROSS BECAUSE THE
JAMIE LEE CURTIS INTERVIEW WAS
JUST INCREDIBLE.
>> THANK YOU FOR THAT, I MEAN
REALLY THE MESSAGE YOU WANT TO
GET ACROSS IS THAT YES, THERE
IS
ADDICTION THERE IS ON
ALCOHOLISM IN HOLLYWOOD, BUT
YOU CAN GET SOBER IN HOLLYWOOD
AND STAY SOBER. YOU KNOW WE
HAVE EVERYONE FROM JAMIE LEE
CURTIS
WHO HAS 20 YEARS OF SOBRIETY
OFF OF AN ADDICTION TO
PAINKILLERS TO DANNY TREJO WHO
HAS 51 YEARS OF SOBRIETY WOW.
>> AND IN THIS INTERVIEW WITH
JAMIE LEE CURTIS WAS ANYTHING
PARTICULARLY SUPPER RISING THAT
YOU WANT YOUR READERS TO REALLY
TAKE AWAY FROM THIS THAT
SURPRISED YOU.
>> I MEAN I THINK WHAT YOU HAVE
TO REALLY TAKE A LOOK AT AND
LISTEN SHOW
IS JUST HOW OPEN SHE IS YOU
KNOW, SHE'S NOT SUGARCOATING
THINGS SHE'S YOU KNOW, SHE'S
SAYING YOU KNOW
I HAVE.
>> THIS PROBLEM, NO ONE KNEW
ABOUT A PROBLEM, NO ONE KNEW
THAT
SHE IS I'M TAKING PAINKILLERS
FOR 10 YEARS, SHE SAID THE ONLY
PEOPLE WHO KNEW SHE WAS TAKING
THE PAINKILLER THAT PEOPLE SHE
GOT TO PAINKILLERS FROM AND IT
WASN'T UNTIL A FRIEND WAS
STAYING WITH HER AND THE FAMILY
HERE OUT IN
L A ONE NIGHT TREES SIPPING
SOME WINE AND SHOULD REACH IN
YOUR POCKET AND TOOK LIKE 5
BIKE IT IN
AND HER FRIEND WAS STANDING
BEHIND HER AND SAID YOU KNOW
WHAT I'VE BEEN SEEING WHAT
YOU'RE DOING AND KNOW WHATS
GOING NOT INSIDE YOU ARE
DEAD WOMAN.
>> AND THAT SORT OF SPARKED HER
ROAD
TO RECOVERY.
>> AND THAT JUST JAMIE LEE
CURTIS MARKET YOU GUYS HAVING
THIS AMAZING VARIETY ISSUE
YOU'VE GOT ELTON JOHN KATY
SEAGAL AND THE LAST YEAR WHO
BASICALLY IS THE BIG EXECUTIVE
PRODUCER FOR AL THE JENNERS
HAVE THIS INCREDIBLY REVEALING
STORY ABOUT HIM
AS WELL. WHY DID YOU THINK NOW
WAS THE RIGHT TIME TO SORT OF
RELEASE THIS SORT OF STORY
MURRAY AND AND GET THIS SORT OF
RECEPTION.
>> YOU KNOW I THINK YOU KNOW
RIGHT NOW SO WHAT'S HAPPENED
WITHIN THIS OVER UNITY ON WITH
THE RECOVERY COMMUNITY. THERE'S
BEEN FOR YOU KNOW DECADES FOR A
VERY LONG TIME YOU JUST DIDN'T
TALK ABOUT IT, YOU KNOW
ALCOHOLICS. ANONYMOUS
WAS ANONYMOUS. AND I THINK YOU
KNOW BECAUSE OF SOCIAL MEDIA
BECAUSE OF THE INTERNET THINGS
AREN'T KEPT SO SECRET ANYMORE
AND ALSO
I THINK PEOPLE LIKE JAMIE LEAD
REALIZE THE POWER THAT THEY
HAVE TO COME
HOW ABOUT THEIR RECOVERY IS
GOING TO HELP SOMEONE AND
THAT'S WHAT IT'S ABOUT IT'S
ABOUT BEING SIR THE BEING OF
SERVICE TO
OTHER PEOPLE. SO YOU KNOW JAMIE
LEE HAS SPOKEN ABOUT WHEN YOU
KNOW OTHER CELEBRITY SHOWS A
NAME NAMES.
>> OF COURSE, YOU KNOW THIS
CONFIDENTIALITY AN EXCUSE THAT
EARLY ON BUT
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>> SHE HAS.
HAD OTHER CELEBRITIES COLOR AND
I NEED HELP AND SHE'S GONE AND
VISITED THEM A MOVIE SET.
>> SHE DOES VISITED THEM ON TV
SETS UP THEIR HOMES HAVE YOU
KNOW HELP THEM
GET PRIVATE. RECOVERY MEETINGS
THERAPY SO I THINK IT'S REALLY
JUST ABOUT PEOPLE
BEING MORE.
>> OPEN ABOUT IT AND THE STATE
MIGHT ISN'T AS FAR AS THE SUN.
>> AND EVEN OUTSIDE OF THE
STORIES OF THESE INDIVIDUALS IN
THIS ISSUE. THERE'S ALSO SOME
PIECES ON HOW THE MEDIA HAS
TREATED RECOVERY
AN ADDICTION FROM BOJACK TO
EUPHORIA HOW SOBRIETY AND
RECOVERY HAVE BEEN DEPICTED HOW
WOULD YOU SAY THE MEDIA HAS
BEEN DEPICTING SOBRIETY AND
RECOVERY OVERALL.
>> I MEAN I THINK I THINK IT'S
A IT DEPENDS ON WHICH PROJECTS
YOU LOOK AT SOME OF THEM GET IT
GARY RIGHT WE BRAD LAMM WHO
RECOVERY CENTERS HERE IN WEST
HOLLYWOOD. HE DID SORT OF A
LOOK AT MOVIES, RECENT MOVIES
THAT SORT OF GET
IT RIGHT AND SOME OF THOSE
MOVIES INCLUDE A STAR IS BORN
WHERE HE SAID YOU KNOW THIS
REALLY
DOES SHOW YOU KNOW THE IN
SERIOUSNESS OF ADDICTION THAT
MEANS OBVIOUSLY SPOILER ALERT
THE MOVIE HE DOES COMMIT
SUICIDE OF THE DUE IN PART TO
HIS ALCOHOLISM. I'M SO I THINK
THE MEDIA HAS DONE SOME REALLY
GREAT JOBS AND DOING IT
I THINK ALONG WITH YOUR SHOW
LIKE EUPHORIA LOT OF PEOPLE
SAID WHEN YOU CAME OUT LIKE OH
THIS IS GOING TO MEET KIDS WANT
TO DO DRUGS. I DON'T THINK
THAT'S
THE CASE. I THINK YOU KNOW YOU
LOOK AT YOUR FLORIDA AND IT'S A
REALLY GOOD LESSON ON WHY YOU
DON'T AND IT'S A GOOD
TALKING POINT FOR PARENTS TO
SIT THEIR KIDS DOWN SAY THIS IS
WHAT IT'S REALLY LIKE THAT.
>> YEAH THAT'S A VERY GOOD
POINT MARK WITH
ANY PART OF ANY OF THE
INTERVIEWS THAT YOU CONDUCT
THAT SURPRISED YOU MAY BE A
STORY THAT SOMEBODY HAD SAID TO
YOU THAT YOU'RE LIKE WOW THAT
IS SO INCREDIBLE.
>> YOU KNOW I DID THIS IS IT
THIS IS A SOBRIETY DANNY TREJO
YOU KNOW HE'S ONE OF THE MOST
PROLIFIC CHARACTER ACTORS IN
HOLLYWOOD. WELL HE STARTED HIS
HOLLYWOOD KOREAN KNOW. PLANS TO
ACT, BUT HE
WAS SOBER. AND THERE WAS A
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT ON A MOVIE
HE SAID YOU KNOW COULD YOU
STICK AROUND I'M HAVING TROUBLE
STAYING SOBER.
SO HE GOES IN HIS MOVIE SET
GETS WORK AS AN EXTRA
TURNS OUT. THIS IS SO CRAZY
TURNS OUT THAT THE WRITER OF
THE MOVIE HE KNEW DANNY IN
PRISON BECAUSE DANNY TREJO WAS
IN PRISON FOR
DEALING HEROIN. THEN HE SAYS OH
COULD YOU TRAIN ERIC ROBERTS TO
BE A BOXER IN THE MOVE BECAUSE
HE KNEW DANNY WAS A BOXER IN
PRISON AND NEXT THING YOU KNOW
THE DIRECTOR ASKED ANY TO BE IN
THE MOVIE. SO HIS CAREER REALLY
OWES TO BEING SO
BECAUSE IT WAS A PRODUCTION
ASSISTANT WHO SAID I NEED HELP
STAYING SOBER COME TO THIS
MOVIE SO.
>> AND I'VE READ I THINK MARK
GETTING TREJO STARTED DOING
DRUGS WE WAS LIKE 8 YEARS OLD.
>> YEAH, YOU KNOW, AND I'M
GOING TO DO SOME TO READ WHEN
HE WAS 8 YEARS OLD HE SAID BY I
THINK WAS 15 HE WAS SHOOTING
DOE, HE WAS SHOOTING HEROIN.
HE'S DEALING HEROIN AND THEY
SEE WHAT
HAPPENED WAS I'M BACK IN THE HE
TRIED TO SOW HEROIN WAS
ACTUALLY SUGAR TO FEDERAL
AGENTS AND HE WAS PUT AWAY AND
HE THOUGHT HE WAS GOING TO BE
PUT AWAY FOR A
LONG TIME MANY SAID A PRAYER
AND HE TALKED HE ASKED GOD TO
GET ME OUT.
>> I PROMISE, I'LL BE GOOD AND
I WILL HELP AND SO DANNY TREJO
WHAT HOW I LIVE. MY STORY IS
DANNY TREJO HAS NOT DRANK
HASN'T HAD A DRINK AND
ELICIT DRUG SINCE RICHARD NIXON
WAS IN OFFICE AND MIDNIGHT
COWBOY WAS IN THEATERS OUT.
>> WOW AND FOR PEOPLE OUTSIDE
OF HOLLYWOOD DO YOU THINK
THERE'S ANY MISCONCEPTIONS ON
HOW ADDICTION MANIFESTS IS
MANIFEST ITSELF INSIDE
HOLLYWOOD HIGH TRYING TO DEBUNK
SOME OF THOSE MISCONCEPTIONS.
>> YOU KNOW I THINK THERE IS A
MISCONCEPTION THAT PEOPLE IN
HOLLYWOOD THERE ARE A BUNCH OF
DRUG ADDICTS OR ALCOHOLICS N.
YOU KNOW LOOK AT THEM WHAT THEY
HAVE TO SAY NO THEY HAVE ALL
THIS MONEY IN THE 2 OF THIS
DRUG SO ON AND SO FORTH.
ADDICTION AND ALCOHOL AND
DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU'RE FAMOUS
IF YOU'RE
NOT FAMOUS. HOW RICH YOU ARE
HOW POOR YOU ARE WHAT COLOR YOU
ARE YOUR GENDER SEXUALLY
ORIENTATION IT IT'S ACROSS
THE BOARD. WE DO HEAR MORE
STORIES BECAUSE THESE ARE
CELEBRITIES SO WE DO SEE THEM,
YOU KNOW STRUGGLING, BUT I
THINK REALLY THE MESSAGE IS YOU
KNOW IT DOESN'T MATTER WHO YOU
ARE ADDICTION IS TOUCHING
EVERYONE AND EVERYONE
WHO IS STRUGGLING DOES HAVE THE