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.
He then threw the rest into an outdoor bin, but later climbed into the bin to retrieve the drugs.
He finally drove to a public trash can on Sunset Boulevard but later drove back and found it again.
Biggs explained his wife, actress and author Jenny Mollen, was asleep upstairs completely unaware of what was happening.
In a raw interview on Arielle Lorre's The Well podcast, the 47-year-old actor recounted moments that brought him dangerously close to rock bottom.
"I lived in the gray area, but I have 'snorting dust off the floor' stories or similar to that," Biggs said.
"One of my craziest stories was I was doing cocaine by myself in my house, and I did what I said was 'the last line'."
"Within 15 minutes, as soon as my last bump is wearing off, what am I doing?" he said.
"I go into my trash, and I take it out and I do a line."
He then attempted a more drastic step but again, the urge took over.
"Before I took the Ambien, I was like, 'One more,'" he recalled.
"I went outside and I climbed into the trash bin and got the bag of coke and went upstairs and did another line. I was like, 'What the f–k am I doing? This is absolutely insane.'"
Determined to stop, Biggs got in his car while high and threw the cocaine into a coffee cup with leftover coffee inside, then placed it in a public trash can.
Still, the pull of the drug was stronger than him.
"When my last bump wore off, I drove back to the trash can and retrieved the drugs," he said.
"I could have easily opened the baggie and dumped it down the toilet, but I didn't. That's too final.
"I knew I was going to finish that bag the moment I got it, but I kept playing this game with myself. That was very close to rock bottom."
Biggs, who shares two sons, Sid, 11, and Lazlo, 7, with Mollen, described how his addiction had taken over every part of his daily life.
"For me, it was the obsession over it," he said.
"It was wake up and immediately think, 'How am I going to get my first line?'… It was exhausting and I was sort of consumed mentally."
Now more than seven years sober, Biggs says "There is a freedom that comes with not having to do those things anymore."
In 2018, the Orange Is the New Black actor celebrated one year of sobriety with an emotional Instagram post, writing: "I first tried to get sober over 5 years ago, when the weight of my obsession with booze and drugs became too heavy for me to handle.
"Turns out this s**t is hard.
"After some fits and starts, I've managed to put together one year of sobriety. I'm as proud of it as anything in my life. If you're struggling, know there's help. Don't be ashamed. We can do this."
Biggs has since reflected on the effort it took to conceal it his addiction.
"I'm going to therapy and 'working on things,' but meanwhile I'm leaving therapy, having just had a good session, and I'm going to the liquor store and buying a fifth of vodka, drinking it and then driving home," he said on a March 2024 episode of All the Fails, hosted by his wife.
"I knew how to get wasted enough to where I took myself out of the life equation, took myself out of the present, didn't have to connect in a way that made me feel things," he added.
"I had it figured out to a T. To not get too drunk where I couldn't have a conversation with you.
"I was replacing those bottles in the bar all the time."
RISE TO FAME
After his American Pie role as the angsty teen who tried to masturbate with an apple pie, Jason appeared in several romcoms.
He had a starring role in Boys and Girls, Saving Silverman, Wedding Daze and All at Once.
His most notable role outside 1999's American Pie, however, was in hit series Orange is the New Black as journalist Larry Bloom.
Earlier on, between 2012 and 2014 he received backlash for misguided jokes on social media, where he appeared to make fun of the doomed Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 and mocked the death of The Bachelorette contestant Eric Hill.
He later apologised for the tweet about the tragic aircraft.
Jason was linked to his co-star Tara Reid in 2000, but has been married to actress Jenny Mollen since 2008.
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