Selma Blair

Speaking about her early years of drinking, the 'Legally Blonde' actress admitted to People: “I don't know if I would've survived childhood without alcoholism.” ...

Yet, the actress felt it was important to talk about it in her memoir. Meanwhile, in the interview with PEOPLE, Selma declared that other than her therapist, she has actually never told a soul about the rape incident. “The first time I got drunk it was a revelation. In the morning, I didn’t remember how I’d gotten there.” “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,’ ” she shared, “I got drunk that night. It really is a huge comfort, a huge relief in the beginning.

Selma Blair talks about her alcohol battle for the first time in her new memoir Mean Baby - and how she started drinking at the age of seven.

In a snippet of her bombshell new book, Selma wrote: "The first time I got drunk it was a revelation. I came out of each event quiet and ashamed." In the morning, I didn't remember how I'd gotten there." "I don't know if both of them raped me. 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.' It really is a huge comfort, a huge relief in the beginning.

I don't know if I would've survived childhood without alcoholism," Selma Blair told People in a new interview about her memoir, 'Mean Baby,' on sale May 17.

And can then work on it with a therapist and with other writing, and really relieve that burden of shame on myself.” Mean Baby also includes details about the sexual assaults Blair has experienced throughout her life, which were important for her to include in her memoir as part of the healing process, she says. Maybe even the first few years for me because I did start really young with that as a comfort, as my coping mechanism.” She notes that anxiety was usually the trigger that led her to drink—“just quick sips whenever my anxiety would alight. One passage explores the roots of her alcoholism, recalling her introduction to Manischewitz, a sweet wine popular in the Jewish community. She shared more details about her past with the outlet, which published an excerpted section of Mean Baby.

Selma Blair said she feels safe enough to “relieve that burden of shame” as she revealed details about multiple sexual assaults for the first time in her ...

“I’m grateful I felt safe enough to put it on the page. “I’m in a good place. “My sense of trauma was bigger than I knew. I wish I could say what happened to me that night was an anomaly, but it wasn’t. Selma Blair said she feels safe enough to “relieve that burden of shame” as she revealed details about multiple sexual assaults for the first time in her new memoir. The 49-year-old actress said she feels safe enough to “relieve that burden of shame”

'I don't know if both of them raped me. One of them definitely did.'

“Doctors thought I had leukemia. It was definitely there for so long.” “I don’t know if both of them raped me. If you need help in a crisis, call Lifeline on 13 11 14. “He didn’t rape me. His lips were on my mouth,” she wrote. “It was hard. … The ailments as a kid connected. But maybe it was easier. “I had so many things that were so indicative of MS,” she wrote. In the memoir, Selma says she “drank to forget” and to bury things that “hold the shame in your cells”. “I mean, now that I was a mother, it just changed everything.”

She told People magazine: "I don't know if I would've survived childhood without alcoholism. That's why it's such a problem for a lot of people. It really is a ...

I came out of each event quiet and ashamed." And in her extract from her upcoming memoir, 'Mean Baby', she wrote: "The first time I got drunk it was a revelation. In the morning, I didn't remember how I'd gotten there." "I got drunk that night. 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.' It really is a huge comfort, a huge relief in the beginning.

Selma Blair says she developed alcoholism after first drinking at seven. In a new memoir, the star opens up about her addiction struggle.

When asked by Guthrie what pushed her to quit drinking, she answered: "Public humiliation and the thing that made me really stop drinking was that I could've died on that plane. "It's gone from me," she told Guthrie, referencing her reliance on alcohol as a crutch. The actor was rushed to the hospital on a stretcher after reportedly taking a combination of prescription medications and alcohol and having what she later described as " a total psychotic blackout." There isn't. Guilt keeps secrets, and it's scared, and there's not much I feel ashamed of anymore because it just happened," she told Guthrie. "I'm really, really happy to be able to walk into this space of empowerment and realize I am a calm and stable grown-up… Two years of extreme gratitude and humility and grace," she wrote. "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," Blair writes in her book. Reflecting on her 20-year relationship with alcoholism, she said: "It was hard. "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. The star says she used drinking to cope with a series of traumas she endured during that period, including multiple sexual assaults. While speaking with Savannah Guthrie for Today, the actor shared that she first got drunk at the age of seven, but had tried alcohol when she was "much younger." In 2016, Blair resolved to get sober after a shocking and widely reported incident on an international flight. Blair's first experiences with alcohol came at an extraordinarily young age, when she was just in elementary school.

Selma Blair speaks out about being attacked by her now ex-boyfriend and her hope to put the horrific incident behind her.

It really is a huge comfort, a huge relief in the beginning. "I feel much more secure in my life," she says. "I'm in a good place," says the Cruel Intentions star. "It's a lot, she admits. I look forward to it being behind me." (He was arrested on a felony charge of domestic violence with corporal injuries.

Selma Blair began drinking alcohol to combat her anxiety when she was just seven years old.

Selma Blair's new book "Mean Baby" includes an accusation that a former Cranbook dean kissed and touched her.

At the end of her senior year, Blair added, the dean congratulated her for winning an award, turned to her mother and said, "You must be so proud." "The school did make us aware this article was coming out," Bloomfield Hills Police Lt. Dustin Lockard said Thursday adding that Blair has not filed a formal report and there is no investigation underway. Early in her career, she appeared in TV commercials but later starred in movies. "His hand went to the small of my back, tracing the space just above my tailbone. "He didn't rape me. His lips were on my mouth."