American Pie star Jason Biggs shares ‘wake-up name’ that compelled him to go sober

Warning: This text incorporates dialogue of alcoholism which some readers might discover distressing.

Jason Biggs has opened up about what kickstarted his sobriety journey amid earlier struggles with alcohol.

It is arduous to imagine that it has been 26 years since Bigg’s breakout function as sexy excessive schooler, Jim Levenstein, in American Pie.

The film franchise form of transcended our teenage years with so many memorable references.

From ‘that one time in bandcamp’ to ‘MILF, MILF, MILF’, the 4 highschool buddies Jim (Biggs), Kevin (Thomas Ian Nicholas), Oz (Chris Klein), and Finch (Eddie Kaye Thomas) performed their half on the peak of American comedy within the early 2000s.

Off-screen, nevertheless, the primary character of 4 out of the 9 movies was dealing with an ‘obsession’ with drink.

Whereas selling his directorial debut, Untitled House Invasion Romance, on The View, Biggs was congratulated on being eight years sober.

“When did you realise it was time to make a change, and what recommendation would you give to people who find themselves beginning on that journey?” Sunny Hostin requested.

“It’s one thing I’m actually pleased with, and it’s definitely been troublesome,” Biggs, who has been sober since 2017, stated.

“I feel for me, I simply couldn’t cease fascinated with it.

“For me, it was like, I’m very fortunate insofar that my backside wasn’t within the basement, at the very least in phrases that I wasn’t arrested, I didn’t damage — properly, there’s harm, however not the sort you may examine, definitely.

“And it may have been worse.”

He defined that he could not escape ‘the snakes in my head’ and that ‘they stored getting worse and worse and worse’.

“And it turns into all-consuming, and I couldn’t be current, and I couldn’t be targeted. It was a transparent concern,” Biggs added.

“After which when Jenny received pregnant, that was form of a wake-up name for me,” he stated of his spouse of over 16 years, Jenny Mollen.

The mum-of-two has been credited with making him flip the nook and get assist.

“They are saying you bought to get sober for your self. I agree and disagree,” stated Biggs.

“I imagine that once you first get sober, no matter the reason being, it doesn’t matter. Whether or not it’s for another person, your loved ones — ‘Jenny was pregnant, I received to get sober’ — no matter it’s.”

“I feel, with a view to keep sober, you must do it for your self,” he continued. “In order that’s what received me in. What retains me there’s I have to do it for myself. Recommendation is, ask for assist.”

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