Selma Blair

2022 - 5 - 11

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Selma Blair Says Alcohol Abuse Started at Age 7, Details Surviving ... (Variety)

Selma Blair writes about her history of alcoholism and abuse in her new memoir, "Mean Baby."

He didn’t threaten me. But he broke me. He didn’t rape me. But he did. “The first time I got drunk it was a revelation,” Blair writes in the memoir (via People). “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. Blair reveals her alcoholism worsened as a young adult and writes about being raped after a day of binge-drinking while on spring break from college.

Selma Blair's Stunning New Memoir Reveals Decades of Alcoholism ... (PEOPLE.com)

In her memoir Mean Baby, and on this week's PEOPLE cover, the actress details the alcohol struggles that began in childhood: 'The first time I got drunk it ...

"I'm in a good place," Blair says. I came out of each event quiet and ashamed." The actress writes that in her early years of drinking, she did not get drunk, "just quick sips whenever my anxiety would alight. "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. It really is a huge comfort, a huge relief in the beginning.

Selma Blair Says She Was an Alcoholic for Decades in New Memoir (Glamour)

In her upcoming memoir, "Mean Baby," Selma Blair says that she started drinking when she was a child and was an alcoholic for decades.

These days Blair is doing much better and hopes that sharing her story will be a help to others. “I thought, ‘Well this is a huge disappointment, but since it turns out I can get the warmth of the Lord from a bottle, thank God there’s one right here.’ I got drunk that night. It really is a huge comfort, a huge relief in the beginning. Now, the actor is opening up about her past in a new memoir called Mean Baby. Blair adds that she took “just quick sips whenever my anxiety would alight. Blair says in the memoir that her relationship with alcohol escalated in her teen years, in college, and into her 20s.

Selma Blair claims high school dean sexually assaulted her as a ... (Page Six)

Selma Blair recalls allegedly being sexually assaulted as a teenager by one of her boarding school deans in her upcoming memoir, “Mean Baby.”

Maybe even the first few years for me because I did start really young with that as a comfort, as my coping mechanism.” She continues, “At the end of my senior year, he came over to congratulate me for winning a writing award. “I really couldn’t believe my good fortune in having such a wonderful mentor and friend,” she recalls. Blair also recalls her mother’s reaction to the alleged violation, writing, “When I told my mother he had kissed me, she took a deep breath. I was just a teenager.” But he did.”

Selma Blair Opens Up About Alcohol Struggles, Multiple Sclerosis in ... (Today.com)

Pegged to the release of her memoir “Mean Baby,” Selma Blair tells TODAY about her multiple sclerosis diagnosis, addiction to alcohol, and horseback riding.

With the support of loved ones, however, she renewed her confidence in herself and has since been able to take her life back. She was then carried from the aircraft on a stretcher after landing. I didn’t drink for attention: I drank to disappear,” she writes. I had my first drinks much younger," Blair revealed to Savannah Guthrie in a sit-down interview that aired on TODAY Wednesday. She noted she drank heavily throughout elementary school, middle school, high school and college. From being violated by an educator during her childhood to seeking refuge in the bottom of alcohol bottles by age 7 and experiencing physical pain that she now believes could have been early signs of MS, she reflects back on it all. Despite her physical condition and dependency on alcohol, Blair managed to persevere.

Selma Blair Talks Getting Drunk at 7, MS Diagnosis in New Memoir (TMZ)

Selma Blair has struggled her whole life, with pain, alcoholism and now fighting through a battle with MS ... all topics covered in her new memoir.

TMZ broke the story ... Selma recently got a restraining order against her longtime boyfriend, Ron Carlson, shortly after he was arrested for domestic violence. She's also undergone chemotherapy and a stem cell transplant in an effort to help manage her MS. It was definitely there for so long.” I had my first drinks much younger." I didn't, but it was a constant high fever. Selma Blair I First Got Drunk at the Age of 7 ... Details Childhood Alcoholism in New Memoir