Jason Biggs got candid about his previous cocaine addiction, revealing he hit rock bottom when he “climbed into the trash bin” to grab the last of his drugs.
“I lived in the gray area, but I have ‘snorting dust off the floor’ stories or similar to that,” the “American Pie” star shared on Wednesday’s episode of the “Well with Arielle Lorre” podcast.
“One of my craziest stories was, I was doing cocaine by myself in my house, and I did what I said was the last line.”
In an attempt to stop himself from doing anymore drugs, Biggs said he threw the rest of his stash into the trash bin.
“Within 15 minutes, as soon as my last bump is wearing off, I’m like, what am I doing? I go into my trash, and I take it out and I do a line,” he shared.
Once he did his new last line of cocaine, he threw the rest of his drugs away once again and grabbed an Ambien to help him sleep. But the one line wasn’t enough.
“Before I took the Ambien, I was like, ‘One more,’” he said. “I went outside and I climbed into the trash bin and got the bag of coke and went upstairs and did another line. I was like, ‘What the f— am I doing? This is absolutely insane.’”
Elsewhere in the interview, the “Orange is the New Black” star, 47, admitted his early fame — thanks to the success of his role in the “American Pie” franchise — worsened his addiction as he “learned very quickly” that people rarely said no to a famous 22-year-old “with money in the bank and coke in my pocket.”
He also shared that he managed to hide the magnitude of his substance abuse problems from his wife, Jenny Mollen, when they met and married, noting that he was “blocking everything out with drugs and alcohol” at the time.
Biggs credited his move out of Los Angeles and to New York as the push that helped him to get clean.
“There’s something about the energy of New York that gives me something, that fills me in a way that Los Angeles couldn’t. But I do believe coming to New York helped me. So, I did fall off the wagon here, but that was seven and a half years ago and it’s been going well,” he shared.
In 2018, the actor revealed on Instagram that he celebrated one year of sobriety after first attempting to get clean five years prior. He’s remained sober for the last seven years.
Biggs, who has candidly been vocal about his recent weight loss, also discussed his alcoholism on his wife’s “All the Fails” podcast in March 2024.
“I’m going to therapy and ‘working on things’ but meanwhile I’m leaving therapy, having just had a good session, and I’m going to the liquor store and buying a fifth of vodka, drinking it and then driving home,” he shared.
“I knew how to get wasted enough to where I took myself out of the life equation, took myself out of the present, didn’t have to connect in a way that made me feel things.”
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