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Olympia Dukakis: I hope sharing past drug use and suicidal thoughts helps others

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Olympia Dukakis has said she hopes discussing her experiences with drug use and thoughts of taking her own life will be helpful to those going through similar things.

The veteran actress, 89, who won an Oscar in 1988 for Moonstruck, said it is the responsibility of those that survive to offer hope to others who are suffering.

She speaks frankly about her experiences in the new documentary Olympia, directed and produced by Harry Mavromichalis, who was a graduate student at NYU Film School in New York, while Dukakis was teaching there.

She told the PA news agency: “What I loved about this documentary was that Harry wasn’t afraid to ask tough questions and then include these conversations in the film. “Topics that are either taboo or that make

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