Selma Blair Reveals Her Battle With Alcohol Addiction Began At Age 7: ‘I Don’t Know If I Would’ve Survived Childhood Without Alcoholism’
etcanada.comSelma Blair speaks candidly about her battle with alcoholism in a new interview with People. The actress, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2018, is set to release her tell-all new memoir Mean Baby on May 17.
She explains how her alcohol addiction started when she was just seven years old. “I don’t know if I would’ve survived childhood without alcoholism,” Blair tells the magazine. “That’s why it’s such a problem for a lot of people.
It really is a huge comfort, a huge relief in the beginning. Maybe even the first few years for me because I did start really young with that as a comfort, as my coping mechanism.” In an excerpt from Mean Baby, Blair writes: “The first time I got drunk it was a revelation.
I always liked Passover. As I took small sips of the Manischewitz I was allowed throughout the seder a light flooded through me, filling me up with the warmth of God. “But the year I was seven, when we basically had Manischewitz on tap and no one was paying attention to my consumption level, I put it together: the feeling was not God but fermentation.
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