"I don’t mind dying, I just don’t wanna go out like some punk." Samuel L. Jackson Sober since 1991
He switched to cocaine after overdosing on heroin so many times.
He credited self-pity as the main reason why he abused drugs to the extent which he.
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Samuel L. Jackson 🇺🇸 Sober since 1991.
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Samuel L. Jackson is one of the highest-grossing actors of all time. He has been acting for 47 years and has starred in nearly 150 films.⠀
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in the late 1970s, his drinking and drug use escalated. He started drinking heavily and using marijuana and LSD on a regular basis. As the years progressed, Jackson became dependent on other substances. Not only was he becoming an addict, but the list of drugs that he used was expanding.⠀
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Jackson couldn’t "dig it" when it came to heroin, he overdosed on it several times. So he just switched to cocaine and well lots and lots of crack.
Jackson has credited self-pity as the main reason why he abused drugs to the extent which he did. He said that during the times when he wasn’t making much money, he would think, “poor me…” and get high to forget how he felt.⠀
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While Jackson rarely talks about his days of using drugs, he does frequently tell the story of how he got sober. Jackson’s rock bottom came in 1991, after nearly two decades of drug and alcohol abuse. He had gone out to a bachelor party and returned home late at night with some cocaine. He had turned on the stove to “cook” the cocaine, but passed out before he finished.⠀
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His wife and 8-year-old daughter found him on the floor of the kitchen surrounded by drugs and paraphernalia. It was at that point that his loved ones pushed him to go to rehab. Jackson has said about the incident: “I guess I wanted to get caught.⠀
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I ended up going to a party, drinking too much tequila, and decided on the way home I needed to get cocaine and level myself out because I was drunk.” I Jackson was able to get sober on his first attempt. He came out of rehab in 1991 and has been sober ever since- over 28 years!⠀
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While Jackson stays sober for himself, he has changed the lives of everyone in his family. His father died an alcoholic and now his daughter doesn’t have to have the same experience. While Jackson has been sober for nearly three decades, that doesn’t mean that recovery is now easy for him. Sobriety is something that happens one day at a time.
