Natasha Lyonne is getting “back on her feet” after she recently relapsed after a decade of sobriety.
“Proud to report this kid is doing a whole lot better and back on her feet,” Lyonne, 46, wrote via X on Thursday, March 19. “[I] want to thank our recovery communities and the fans who stood by and were so supportive.”
According to Lyonne, she planned to keep most of her “journey somehow private.”
“[I] look forward to sharing my experience, strength and hope as [it] makes sense,” the Poker Face actress wrote. “My heart is with everyone ever going through it.”
Nearly three months earlier, Lyonne announced that she had recently relapsed.
“Took my relapse public, more to come,” Lyonne wrote via X in January. “Recovery is a lifelong process. Anyone out there struggling, remember you’re not alone. Grateful for love and smart feet. Gonna do it for baby Bambo. Stay honest, folks. Sick as our secrets.”
Lyonne also offered a message to others navigating their own substance abuse struggles.
“If no one told ya today, I love you. No matter how far down the scales we have gone, we will see how our experience may help another,” she tweeted. “Keep going, kiddos. Don’t quit before the miracle. Wallpaper your mind with love. Rest is all noise and baloney.”
Lyonne had previously quit drinking in 2006.
“Spiraling into addiction is really, really scary. Some things have a very A-to-B scientific effect,” the actress recalled to Entertainment Weekly in 2012. “Like, alcohol is a depressant. Cocaine is a stimulant. And then, cocaine plus heroin is bad! That’s the point of my story, that’s the moral. Coke plus heroin equals speedball. And speedball equals bad, you know?”
Lyonne continued at the time, “It’s weird to talk about. I was definitely as good as dead, you know? A lot of people don’t come back. That makes me feel wary, and self-conscious. I wouldn’t want to feel prideful about it. People really rallied around me and pulled me up by my f***ing bootstraps.”
Lyonne underwent treatment at an in-patient rehab facility in 2006, where she got sober. Afterward, Lyonne remained candid about her past experiences.
“I’m such an open book that I have no problem talking about it and speaking freely, but I’ve sort of said my piece on the subject,” Lyonne told The Guardian in a 2017 profile. “The truth is, at the back of that addiction are feelings that so many of us have, that don’t go away. Isn’t everyone entitled to a moment of existential breakdown in a lifetime? Adulthood is making peace with being kind to oneself when a response to life that’s so much more organic and immediate would be to self-destruct.”
If you or someone you know is struggling with substance abuse, contact the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) National Helpline at 1-800-662-HELP (4357).
