Katey Sagal says that alcoholism has destroyed music career

• Katey Sagal opened for Christina Applegate and Jamie-Lynn Sigler about her ‘life-threatening disease’, alcoholism
• Sagal was published in the 11 March of Applegate and Sigler’s Podcast, Messyexplaining that she started drinking at the age of 15 to do media and to prevent them from “dealing with emotion”
• The actress, 71, shared her addiction influenced her early music career and said she “almost burned it”

Katey Sagal said she started drinking as a teenager and used drugs – and shared that “I mediated myself” with the fabrics not to “deal with emotion”.

The actress, 71, opened for Christina Applegate and Jamie-Lynn Sigler during the 11 March episode from their podcast, MessySaying that she started using “drugs and alcohol when I was really young when I was 15.”

‘I am a person who probably did not deal with the first 30 years of my life [with] S – T, “Sagal told Sigler and Applegate, who played her daughter on the screen Married … with children For 11 seasons. “I gave myself about where I didn’t really have to do with my emotion. My parents died, I had cancer in my twenty, I mean, a couple of S – not and I didn’t really have to do with it. And then, you know, I stopped medication, and now I have no choice but to deal with it. ”

Sagal referred to Applegate and Sigler’s struggle with the chronic immune disorder Multiple Sclerosis and said: “I am sure you are treating with a life-threatening disease that as an alcoholic, I am dealing with a vineyage-threatening disease in the forefront of your own mortality,” Sagal said. “So there is a certain adulthood that I am sure I have the disease that you both do that you have forced in probably a number of really great ways to know, such as: ‘This is it, man. This is the moment, you know? “”

As the Sons of anarchy Alum said: “It is the way I choose to live my life, but not to stay afraid, to walk in faith, to be a person who can look at the dark sides and really process them, I have learned in this way that I live my life, what I think was the greatest inspiration. Because, you know, you, the brave life is, and you have to be a rough life, and you have to be a rough life. I have found around the community that I know, I know many people who have gone through everything, so you know, the opposite of addiction.

It wasn’t always the case, Sagal said and explained that her addictions set fire to her music career. “Because of my own self -sabotage, [I] Almost burned, it almost burned, “said Sagal, who has since released two albums and has recorded a song for the Sons of anarchy soundtrack. “I know this afterwards, but you know, you can’t be loaded on the performance. And sometimes I would do that. ”

Looking ahead, she shares that she has maintained an “open dialogue” with the youngest of her three children, daughter, Esme, 18, about alcohol – especially now that she is going to university. “We talk a lot about it, you know, not drugs, point out. She grew up in a household without alcohol. So you know, we let her try some alcohol before she goes to university. Only because I don’t think the first experience should be at a Frat party with a barrel or whatever. ”

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