Jason Biggs recalls climbing into trash can to snort cocaine at 4 a.m. during insane addiction battle

Jason Biggs has opened up about getting sober after an “absolutely insane” battle with cocaine addiction.The “American Pie” star, 47, discussed his years-long fight with drugs and alcohol during a recent appearance on the “Well with Arielle Lorre” podcast.Biggs, who has been sober for more than seven years, blamed his earlier battles with substance abuse on “being 22 with money in the bank and coke in my pocket and no one saying no to me.”The “Saving Silverman” actor also admitted that in 2008, when he was 30 and had just married his wife, Jenny Mollen, he was “blocking everything out with drugs and alcohol” as his addictions “just got worse and worse.”Biggs hit rock bottom shortly after when he “climbed into the trash bin” to do cocaine after throwing the drugs away in an effort to quit.It was 4 a.m., and his wife was asleep.“I lived in the gray area, but I have ‘snorting dust off the floor’ stories or similar to that,” he said on Wednesday.

“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.”“Within 15 minutes, as soon as my last bump is wearing off, I’m like, ‘What am I doing?'” he continued.“I go into my trash, and I take it out, and I do a line.”The same thing happened when the “Jersey Girl” actor threw his drugs away again in another attempt to stop using.

Biggs went inside to take a sleeping pill, only to go back outside to recover the cocaine he had just thrown away.“Before I took the Ambien, I was like, ‘One more,’” he told Lorre.“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–k am I doing? This is absolutely insane,'” Biggs added.Biggs also noted that he seriously struggled with sobriety while living in Los Angeles.“I would find myself alone and isolating, and I would find myself breaking whatever sobriety I had,” he ...