American Pie star Jason Biggs is proudly sober after hitting “rock bottom” over seven years ago.
“I lived in the gray area, but I have ‘snorting dust off the floor’ stories or similar to that,” Biggs, 47, told Arielle Lorre on the Wednesday, June 4, episode of her “Well” podcast. “One of my craziest stories was [that] I was doing cocaine by myself in my house, and I did what I said was the last line. You know, ‘It’s 4:00, my wife [Jenny Mullen] doesn’t even know that I’m up doing coke [and] I got to get to bed.’”
Biggs subsequently dumped the remaining cocaine into a trash can.
“Within 15 minutes, as soon as my last bump is wearing off, what am I doing? I go into my trash, and I take it out and I do a line,” he recalled. “I’m like, ‘I’ve got to get rid of this.’ I went outside to the trash bins you have in front of your house in L.A., and I threw it in one of the trash bins. I was like, ‘OK, I’m done.’”
Biggs went back inside his house, intending to “take an Ambien” dose before going to bed.
“Before I took the Ambien, I was like, ‘One more.’ I went outside and I climbed into the trash bin and got the bag of coke and went upstairs and did another line,” he said. “I was like, ‘What the f*** am I doing? This is absolutely insane. I literally got in my car with the bag of coke, drove to Sunset [at] the bottom of the hill … and I put the coke in one of those trash bins.”
“There was a Starbucks cup inside of it [that] still had some coffee in it, and I put it in that [with] clothes and I drove back,” Biggs continued. “I drove back home, and I’m like, ‘OK, I’m good.’ It wore off and I was like, ‘I got to get that bag of coke.’”
Biggs subsequently drove back to the neighbor’s trash bin to retrieve the drugs from the trash can and Starbucks cup, respectively.
“I could have easily opened the baggie [of cocaine] and dumped it down the toilet, but I didn’t,” Biggs said. “That’s too final. I knew I was going to finish that bag the moment I got it, but I kept playing this game with myself.”
Biggs further noted that his trash can binge was “very close to rock bottom.”
“For me, it was the obsession over it,” he said. “It was wake up and immediately think, ‘How am I going to get my first line?’ to ‘When is this going to happen? What do I have today?’ … It was exhausting and I was sort of consumed mentally.”
After getting sober, Biggs realized that his life was “better” after he quit using drugs.
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