Jason Biggs Details Retrieving Cocaine From Trash Can Amid Addiction Battle
- Jason Biggs detailed his cocaine addiction during a June 4 podcast, describing repeatedly retrieving drugs from a trash can at his home.
- Biggs' addiction worsened after early fame from American Pie in 1999, leading him to use drugs alone and hide his drinking from his wife, Jenny Mollen.
- He described throwing cocaine into a trash can outside, then climbing inside to retrieve and use it multiple times, before finally deciding to quit and move to New York.
- Biggs described how shortly after the effects of his final dose began fading, he would find himself questioning his actions, rummaging through his trash to retrieve drugs and taking another line, highlighting the intensity of his addiction.
- He has been sober since 2017 and credits sobriety with being "freeing," continuing therapy, and recognizing his life improved after quitting drugs.
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Jason Biggs once crawled into a garbage can to find cocaine at the height of his drug addiction, the 47-year-old actor confessed in the podcast Well with Arielle Lorre. The American Pie star has been drug-free since 2017. He has always been open about the period when things were going badly for him.


American Pie's Jason Biggs reveals his lowest point in his drug addiction battle
JASON Biggs has revealed he retrieved a bag of cocaine from the trash THREE times in one night in his lowest moment battling addiction. The American Pie star said he tried to get rid of it multiple times at 4am – initially chucking it in his own kitchen trash before taking it out to do some more. GettyJason Biggs has been sober for seven years[/caption] American Pie star Jason shared his lowest moments during his addiction battle American Pie is…
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