Los Angeles fires: Hollywood church lost, Curtis mourns
The northern part of the Los Angeles metropolitan area has been burning for several days now. There are the first casualties, and people are losing their homes and belongings. A Hollywood actress mourns a church that was a mainstay for the local community and has burned down completely.
As a result of the fires raging for two days in California, thousands of people have been evacuated, have nowhere to return to, and have lost their belongings, often also their jobs. The media report on the well-known and wealthy who have also lost their properties. Of course, they are in a much better situation than the "average person." Jamie Lee Curtis posted a photo on Instagram of a church in the Pacific Palisades district of Los Angeles, which was completely burned down.
"This is the church in the Palisades that had a beautiful Sunday school and school and was a gorgeous house of worship and is the building that I got sober in 25 years ago. I think of all of the souls who came there for comfort and solace and all the baptisms and funerals and weddings and the thousands of people who reclaimed their lives through Sobriety. Also, the women's club in the Palisades where I met many sober people. Both are gone. Tough times. We will persevere. God bless you all," the actress wrote.
Jamie Lee Curtis openly about alcohol addiction
The Oscar and two Golden Globes winner has been sober for over 20 years. She does not shy away from confessions on this topic. It's known that her family already had issues with substances. Her father, actor Tony Curtis, struggled with addiction to alcohol, cocaine, and heroin. Her half-brother Nicholas Curtis died from a heroin overdose in 1994. She herself revealed in 2018 that she was addicted to opioids for 10 years.
Her ordeal with opioids began in 1989 when she underwent plastic surgery and the doctor prescribed her painkillers. Since then, she took them in large quantities, stole pills from others, and was so cunning that no one noticed. Similar struggles were experienced by Matthew Perry before his death.
In 1999, Curtis attended her first meeting for addicts. "Sobering up remains my greatest achievement... greater than my husband, my children, and greater than any role, success, failure. Greater than anything," the actress emphasized then.
