By Jade Biggs
Original Source: cosmopolitan.com
Actor Selma Blair – best known for starring in a string of romcoms including Legally Blonde, The Sweetest Thing and Cruel Intentions – has shared an insight into her decades-long battle with alcoholism, revealing that she got drunk for the first time at the age of seven.
Speaking to People magazine ahead of the release of her memoir, titled Mean Baby, Selma said, "I don't know if I would've survived childhood without alcoholism." The 49-year-old went on to say that alcohol is "such a problem for a lot of people" because it is "a huge comfort", later explaining that it became her "coping mechanism."
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