REBIRTHING HAS MERIT –
October 3, 2022 – “When you’re active in your disease, you’re the identified problem. The minute you go into recovery … the day you say I want to change, you become the identified possibility,” Pfeiffer, 58, tells Page Six in an exclusive new interview. While away from Hollywood, the actress also went back to school, earning a master’s degree in social work from UCLA. She says leaving acting behind for a decade provided her with a reality check, as she got to work with the homeless and the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health.
“To really submerge myself in the real world, in the bowels of the real world, for 10 years and then come back, was really shocking,” she tells us.
Pfeiffer’s family was instrumental in turning her life around.
She shares that her loved ones approached her and “wanted to offer help,” to which she “shockingly” admitted that she had already been searching for guidance but did not know how to initiate it.
“At that time, my answer was [that] I was already looking for 800- [and] anonymous [helpline] numbers that I was going to call. I just didn’t know how to ask for help,” she recalls. “I was kneecapped with shame, I was kneecapped with embarrassment, I was kneecapped with the feeling of feeling like a failure because I couldn’t stop and I didn’t know how to stop. I kept trying but I couldn’t do it, which just makes you feel like s–t about yourself.”
