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Jamie Lee Curtisis defending her daughter.
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“And my job is to say, ‘Welcome home.’ I will fight and defend her right to exist to anyone who claims that she doesn’t. And there are those people.”
In the interview with Scarborough, Curtis also talked about her recent guest appearance on the Hulu seriesThe Bearas Donna Persada, the matriarch of main character Carmy’s dysfunctional family who struggles with addiction. Curtis has been open in the past about her own struggles with opioid addiction and her complicated family history of addiction. She spoke about how her experience was different than Donna’s.
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“I am incredibly lucky that wasn’t my path,” Curtis says, referring to being incarcerated. “I was headed there…And if fentanyl was as easily available as it is today on the street, I’d be dead. Sobriety simply just made it all crystal clear.”
“Obviously, I’m trying to learn the most important thing is that I don’t know everything. And I wake up every day sober, saying, ‘I don’t know everything. I don’t know a lot. There are a lot of things I don’t know about. And there’s a lot of this that I need to learn.'”
“You slow your speech down a little. You become a little more mindful about what you’re saying,” she explained. “How you’re saying it. You still mess up, I’ve messed up today twice. We’re human.”
source: people.com
