With buzz building about the possible connection between Michael Jackson’s death and painkillers, actress Jamie Lee Curtis has made a powerful admission: She was hooked on them – and understands how hard it is to quit.

“I too found painkillers after a routine cosmetic surgical procedure and I too became addicted,” Curtis, 50, writes in a blog for the Huffington Post. “The morphine becomes the warm bath from which to escape painful reality. I was a lucky one. I was able to see that the pain had started long ago and far away and that the finding the narcotic was merely a matter of time.”

Though she does not disclose more details – a timeline of her addiction or what kind of treatment she sought, Curtis says she has since stopped using drugs. “My recovery from drug addiction is the single greatest accomplishment of my life,” she writes. “But it takes work – hard, painful work.”

Still, the actress empathizes with Michael Jackson. “I believe Mr. Jackson was in pain,” she writes. “Mr. Jackson was an addict. It is coming out. Everywhere. He wanted relief and would get it in any name, place or method he could. It was and is a conspiracy of silence and I’m sure there were attempts to intervene and I’m sure his family and friends tried … but the addict gets what the addict wants, relief from the pain of their life.”

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Jamie Lee Curtis confessed to stealing her sister’s painkillers in a letter she never sent.

The Trading Places star has revealed the contents of the heartfelt letter in a new More magazine article.

She says, “The first line is, `I’ve been harboring a secret, a bad secret for the length of your stay. I have found and taken many of your Percocet and Vicodin.’”

Curtis reveals her sister Kelly was prescribed painkillers for a broken bone – and the letter spurred on the actress’ attempts to get help for her addiction.

She wrote, “I’ve betrayed you, and I know that you’re angry, and you have every right to be… I am lonely. I take them at night at home to ease the pain. I was so afraid to tell you.”

The actress admits the letter has “been on my desk for 10 years”.

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Jamie Lee Curtis has urged all women to think carefully about plastic surgery, because the entire industry is based on the “fraud” that a nip and tuck will make you feel better about yourself.

The 49-year-old actress has revealed she underwent surgery on her lower eyes when she was 35 after a cruel cameramen told her she was too “puffy” for him to shoot, and she has had work done since. But now Curtis is urging all women to grow old gracefully because it’s rare that people really do feel better about themselves after they go under the knife.

She says, “I did it all but, you know what, it didn’t work. The fraud is it doesn’t work; it doesn’t work because there are complications, and I got them all. It doesn’t work because you still look in the mirror and you see the fraud of what you were trying to do.”

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Jamie Lee Curtis has rolled back the years by posing topless to celebrate her 50th birthday. The Hollywood star stripped off to appear on the front cover of America’s leading magazine for the over 50s.

Curtis graces the cover of ‘AARP The Magazine’ posing in a swimming pool. “If I can challenge the old ideas about aging, I will feel more and more invigorated,” Curtis said in the magazine’s May/June issue. “I want to be older. I actually think there’s an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older. I feel way better now than I did when I was 20. I’m stronger, I’m smarter in every way, I’m so much less crazy than I was then. Getting older means paring yourself down to an essential version of yourself. My style is a distillation. I’ve etched out who I am through myriad haircut attempts, outfit attempts, beauty attempts, diet attempts. It’s been an evolution. I’ve let my hair go gray. I wear only black and white. Every year I buy three or four black dresses that I just keep in rotation. I own one pair of blue jeans. I’ve given away all my jewelry, because I don’t wear it.”

Curtis is well known for showing off her body in movie roles in ‘Trading Places’ and ‘A Fish Called Wanda.’ Curtis says she will celebrate her birthday by cooking herself a breakfast of cereal, waffles, bacon, pancakes, omelets, and protein shakes. The star is also putting together a book of 50 of photographs that she will give to friends.

Jamie Lee looks good for her age.

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