Jason Biggs is opening up about his previous battles with alcohol, revealing he used to cover his habit from his spouse, Jenny Mollen.
The American Pie alum made a latest look on his spouse’s podcast All of the Fails, the place he admitted that he continued to drink alcohol whereas attending counseling.
“I’m going to remedy and ‘engaged on issues,’ however in the meantime I’m leaving remedy, having simply had session, and I’m going to the liquor retailer and shopping for a fifth of vodka, consuming it after which driving house,” Biggs recounted.
Mollen mentioned she was shocked to study that she by no means realized the extent of his alcohol habit. “How did I not discover?” she requested.
“I knew get wasted sufficient to the place I took myself out of the life equation, took myself out of the current, didn’t have to attach in a approach that made me really feel issues,” Biggs defined. “I had it found out to a T however not get too drunk the place I couldn’t have a dialog with you.”
He added, “I used to be changing these bottles within the bar on a regular basis, on a regular basis.”
The Orange Is the New Black actor has beforehand been open about his struggles with alcohol and drug habit, celebrating his one yr of sobriety on Instagram in October 2018.
“I first tried to get sober over 5 years in the past, when the burden of my obsession with booze and medicines grew to become too heavy for me to deal with. Seems this shit is tough,” Biggs wrote on the time. “After some matches and begins, I’ve managed to place collectively one yr of sobriety. I’m as happy with it as something in my life.”
He continued, “For those who’re struggling, know there’s assist. Don’t be ashamed. We will do that.”
Biggs and Mollen — who share two sons — have been married since 2008 after assembly whereas filming My Greatest Pal’s Woman.