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Alcohol addiction and rape: Selma Blair opens up about her traumatic past
Selma Blair has written her trauma from the soul
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In her new autobiography, Selma Blair talks about her addiction and her traumatic childhood. She started drinking alcohol at the age of seven.
It’s a past that has left scars. And which Selma Blair is now openly talking about. In her memoirs “Mean Baby”, the actress gives an insight into her inner life, as does the US magazine “People”.
Selma Blair opens up about alcohol addiction
“I don’t know if I would have survived my childhood without alcoholism,” she says in an interview. “That’s why it’s such a problem for a lot of people. It’s really a great comfort, a great relief in the beginning. Maybe even in the early years for me because I started it very young, as a comfort, as my coping mechanism,” explains her addiction to hard liquor. She tried it for the first time during the Jewish Passover festival. She was only seven years old then. “That night I got drunk. Very drunk. Eventually I was put in bed with my sister Katie. In the morning I couldn’t remember how I got there,” she writes in her book, from which “People” quotes.
She also writes in “Mean Baby” that she managed to hide her drinking. So she always took quick sips when she felt scared. It got worse in her twenties.
Multiple rape
She also reveals that she was raped while intoxicated. “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 isolated incident, but it wasn’t. I’ve been raped, multiple times ‘Cause I was too drunk to say the words ‘Please. Stop’. Only this one time was violent. I have always come out of the event calm and embarrassed,” she wrote.
By writing the traumatic experiences from her soul in her autobiography, she was able to overcome them. “My trauma was greater than I thought. I didn’t realize that the assault was so central to my life. I felt so much shame and guilt. I’m grateful that I felt safe enough to put it on paper And then I can work with a therapist and with other writers and really take that burden of shame off me,” she tells People.
Selma Blair has been clean since 2016. For several years she has been drawing attention to multiple sclerosis, which she suffers from herself.
source: “people”