I spent a year in a 12-step program, really committed, because I could not believe what had happened - that I might have killed myself.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My spiritual system is 12-step programs. That's the only one I've ever had. I didn't have one before that.
It may sound funny, but it's true: I tried to put myself through the 12-step program. I didn't want to attend a real meeting; my role didn't really require that, and I feel those meetings are sort of sacred, and they're anonymous for a reason. I tried to deal with some of my love of snacks - and I relapsed a lot.
I think for a couple of years I was believing that I was doing it all on my own and I wasn't.
I basically took six or seven years off, but then I had another five or four of me not working at all because I was in school. It was really 13 years of me not working at all... I really couldn't even think about it.
I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit.
I still think my whole career was accidental. I didn't pursue it. I feel like I'm cheating sometimes.
Before I pursued acting full-time, I had every intention of going into some form of law enforcement work.
When I started working, I didn't have a clue what I was doing, in that I was just wandering around, hoping that I could succeed. Then after I got a little under my belt, it took me about 25 years to feel like I knew what I was doing.
I was told millions of times that I was never going to achieve what I set out to, but I decided to do it, and I did it.
I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.