05/12/2022 at 12:02Updated 05/12/2022 at 11:50
In the first excerpts of her memoir “Mean Baby”, Selma Blair makes some shocking revelations regarding her past.
In 2018, Selma Blair revealed to be suffering from multiple sclerosis . Four years later, it is another part of her private life that she approaches, without taboo, in “Mean Baby”. Memoirs in which she reveals in particular her consumption of alcohol from the age of 7. “I don’t know if I would have survived my entire childhood without alcoholism. That’s why it’s such a problem for many people. It’s a real comfort, a real relief at first. Maybe even the first years for me because I started very young, it was like a comfort, a mechanism,” she told the magazine.People which she is on the cover of this week.
In her autobiography, Selma Blair explains that during her early years of drinking she didn’t get drunk, “just quick sips whenever (her) anxiety arose.” But later, in her twenties, she sank into hard alcoholism. A descent into hell where the actress reveals that she was sexually assaulted during a university trip, when she was completely drunk. “I was raped, several times, because I was too drunk to say the words: ‘Please. Stop.’ I came out of each of his rapes calm and ashamed”.
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“I’m still here and I’m fine”
For Selma Blair, the healing process continues and writing her memoirs is part of it. “My sense of trauma was greater than I thought. I hadn’t realized that aggression was a focal point in my life. I was so ashamed and I was so angry with myself. I’m grateful that I felt safe enough to write it.”
Sober since 2016, Selma Blair wants her journey and the events of her past to help those who live with similar burdens. “I wrote this autobiography for my son…and for people trying to find the deepest hole to crawl into until the pain passes,” she said. Today, the actress is full of hope for what the future holds for her. “I can’t believe all of this has happened in my life, and I’m still here, and I’m fine.” “Mean Baby” will be released on May 17.
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