“Orange Is the New Black” and “Poker Face” star Natasha Lyonne has revealed she suffered a relapse after what’s believed to be almost 20 years of sobriety.
The 46-year-old Emmy nominee tweeted late Friday that she was taking her relapse “public,” and seemingly promised to share extra particulars quickly.
Took my relapse public extra to return
— natasha lyonne (@nlyonne) January 24, 2026
She mirrored additional in a follow-up publish early Saturday morning, writing, “Restoration is a lifelong course of. Anybody on the market struggling, bear in mind you’re not alone.”
Lyonne requested that anybody dealing with related setbacks “keep sincere,” as a result of we’re solely as “sick as our secrets and techniques” and we by no means know the way our experiences might assist others.
“Hold going, kiddos. Don’t give up earlier than the miracle,” she wrote. “Wallpaper your thoughts with love. Relaxation is all noise and baloney.”
Whereas Lyonne didn’t say when she relapsed or with what, she did reply to a number of followers sharing their messages of assist.
“There however for the grace,” she replied to at least one person who reassured her that she’d make it again once more.
“Could turn out to be a pothead or a nun. TBD,” she added in her signature deadpan tone.
Lyonne’s battle with substance abuse obtained widespread media consideration in early 2000s after a number of run-ins with the legislation. In 2005, her heroin habit landed her within the ICU with hepatitis C, a coronary heart an infection and a collapsed lung. She ultimately bought sober with the assistance of court-appointed rehab she accomplished in 2006.
“Spiraling into habit is absolutely, actually scary,” she advised Leisure Weekly six years later. “I used to be positively nearly as good as useless, you already know?”
Lyonne was “doing OK” when she spoke to the Day by day Information in 2017 in regards to the “life-affirming” nature of enjoying addict Nicky Nichols on “OITNB,” for which she earned her first Emmy nomination.
“Having some usefulness in your day job makes you higher, a lot extra succesful to transmit or articulate one thing,” she stated, including that filming some scenes for the collection proved “problematic … as a result of I do know them so intimately, and but I discover myself a decade away from them.”
In 2023, whereas making an attempt to surrender smoking, Lyonne advised Selection she’s “naturally wired for self-destructive crutches. I f–king love a vice.”
Round that very same time, comic John Mulaney confirmed in his Netflix particular, “Child J,” that Lyonne was one of many attendees at his “star-studded intervention” to handle his relapse, which resulted in him going to rehab in late 2020. Additionally on the intervention had been Seth Meyers, Invoice Hader, Nick Kroll and Lyonne’s ex Fred Armisen, amongst others.
