{"id":605839,"date":"2026-04-25T15:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T15:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/605839\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T15:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T15:42:15","slug":"jason-biggs-reveals-why-he-went-public-with-sobriety-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/605839\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Biggs reveals why he went public with sobriety journey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jason Biggs confessed that he was initially \u201cnervous\u201d about sharing his sobriety journey.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was nervous because relapse is a big part of my story,\u201d the actor, 47, told Page Six at the City Harvest Presents the 2026 Gala: Shaken, Not Stirred on Tuesday night. \u201cI spent the first four years of my journey in and out of AA, and relapsing and struggling.\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u201cAmerican Pie\u201d star added that he spoke out to be \u201caccountable\u201d and to possibly \u201cmotivate some people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jason Biggs spoke to Page Six about his sobriety journey at the 2026 City Harvest Gala on April 21. Page Six<\/p>\n

The actor, seen here in April 2026, confessed he was initially \u201cnervous\u201d to talk about it. UrbanxDivinity \/ BACKGRID<\/p>\n

Last year, Biggs appeared on the \u201cWell with Arielle Lorre\u201d podcast and revealed that during the throes of his addiction, he found himself climbing into a trash bin to salvage the last of his drugs.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI was like, \u2018What the f\u2013k am I doing? This is absolutely insane,\u2019\u201d Biggs recalled, adding that he managed to hide the extent of his addiction from his wife, Jenny Mollen.<\/p>\n

In 2018, the \u201cOrange Is the New Black\u201d star posted a photo of his one-year sobriety chip<\/a> to social media.<\/p>\n

Biggs initially became famous for starring in the \u201cAmerican Pie\u201d franchise. He\u2019s seen above in a 1999 scene with costar Alyson Hannigan. \u00a9Universal\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n

Biggs hopes by speaking out about his struggles, he can \u201cmotivate\u201d other people to seek help. Lev Radin\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

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\u201cI 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,\u201d he captioned the pic. <\/p>\n

\u201cTurns out this s\u2013t is hard. After some fits and starts, I\u2019ve managed to put together one year of sobriety. I\u2019m as proud of it as anything in my life. If you\u2019re struggling, know there\u2019s help. Don\u2019t be ashamed. We can do this. \ud83d\udcaa\ud83d\ude4f\u201d<\/p>\n

Biggs was on hand to celebrate City Harvest<\/a>, which rescues food that would otherwise go to waste and delivers it for free to New Yorkers in need.<\/p>\n

The \u201cLoser\u201d star shared that he also hates to waste food, and called himself a \u201cleftover guy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Biggs, who is married to Jenny Mollen (they\u2019re seen here together in 2025) also shared with Page Six that he\u2019s quite a good cook. Getty Images<\/p>\n

He says one of his specialties is a pasta sauce that his kids think is \u201cvery good.\u201d He\u2019s seen here at the premiere of \u201cAmerican Pie\u201d in 1999. WireImage<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve got them, I eat them, I recycle [them] into different kinds of meals,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m the guy that\u2019s taking leftover Chinese food and adding eggs to it in the morning, and making a breakfast sort of scramble.\u201d<\/p>\n

Biggs added that he\u2019s quite a good cook and whips up a pasta sauce that \u201cI think is pretty good, my kids think is very good.\u201d<\/p>\n

The starry night, which raised a record-breaking amount to provide more than 12 million meals, honored Cote chef Simon Kim and was hosted by \u201cSNL\u201d alum Bowen Yang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jason Biggs confessed that he was initially \u201cnervous\u201d about sharing his sobriety journey. \u201cI was nervous because relapse…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[9038,236,91,88,186,178217,206,57054],"class_list":["post-605839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-addiction","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity-news","tag-entertainment","tag-exclusive","tag-jason-biggs","tag-movies","tag-sobriety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}