"Curly Sue" actress Alisan Porter has an admission
to make: "Hi, I'm Ali, and I'm an alcoholic."
That's how Porter begins a blog post on her website, "Lil Mamas," where the
now-33-year-old details her battle with alcoholism.
In the post, titled "The Obligatory Child Star Gets
Sober Mom Blog," Porter kids that perhaps her fans "didn't see that
one coming. Or, because you know that I'm a former child star, you totally
did."
"I was living in NYC," she recalls. "I was
miserable and overwhelmed with life. I was heartbroken and realizing that what
had always worked for me in the past was NOT working at all ... So, I did what
every good user does and I prayed to a god I had never believed in... and then
called my mom. Days later I was off to treatment, just like that. For the next
four years I went to meetings, worked the steps, got a sponsor, found a god of
my own understanding, prayed, meditated and basically grew up."
Porter can now say that she's been sober since October 28,
2007. As a married mom of two, the former actress admits she still has her bad
days, but she says her family helps her keep things in perspective.
"I don't drink because I don't want to miss one second
of the responsibilities I get to have today. I don't drink because I can't. I
want to, a lot of days, because I'm human and because life gets hard. But I
don't," Porter writes. "I'm sure that someday my kids will ask me why
I don't drink and my answer will be simple: 'I never want to lose myself and
not be able to find you.'"
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