Natasha Lyonne has often spoken about her recovery journey from substance abuse.
Now, the Poker Face star, 46, shares that she has relapsed in a post on X written in her typically sharp and witty way.
‘Took my relapse public, more to come,’ Lyonne told her 545.5k followers, who showered her with support.
‘Thanks, boss … for the grace, etc.,’ the actress wrote in response to one bolstering comment. ‘Sending love back your way. May become a pothead or a nun. TBD.’
Lyonne, who appeared to be enjoying herself at the Golden Globes after-party, didn’t give an exact time frame of when the relapse occurred or how, but she stressed that ‘recovery is a lifelong process.’
‘Anyone out there struggling, remember you’re not alone,’ her written message continued on Saturday, January 24.
Natasha Lyonne – pictured at the Golden Globes on January 11 – has often spoken about her recovery journey from substance abuse and now the Poker Face star, 46, shares that she has relapsed in a post on X
‘Grateful for love and smart feet. Gonna do it for baby Bambo. Stay honest, folks. Sick as our secrets.’
The Orange is the New Black alum added: ‘If no one told ya today, I love you. No matter how far down the scales we have gone, we will see how our experience may help another. Keep going, kiddos. Don’t quit before the miracle. Wallpaper your mind with love. Rest is all noise and baloney.’
To one devotee she wrote, ‘Love ya back,’ and to another, she confided, ‘We need better systems and to end shame — bill the Sacklers and stilettos or something but don’t @ me for getting honest.’
She was referring to the notorious Sackler family, known for owning Purdue Pharma, which developed the highly addictive pain medication OxyContin and amassed billions from its sales.
Last year, the company was forced to cough up a $7.4 billion settlement for their role in the current opioid epidemic.
Lyonne, who completed rehab in 2006, previously spoke about her downward spiral into drug and alcohol addiction in a candid interview with Entertainment Weekly in 2012.
‘Spiraling into addiction is really, really scary,’ she said. ‘Some things have a very A-to-B scientific effect. Like, alcohol is a depressant. Cocaine is a stimulant. And then: Cocaine plus heroin is bad! That’s the point of my story, that’s the moral. Coke plus heroin equals speedball. And speedball equals bad, you know?
‘It’s weird to talk about,’ she said at the time. ‘I was definitely as good as dead, you know? A lot of people don’t come back. That makes me feel wary, and self-conscious. I wouldn’t want to feel prideful about it. People really rallied around me and pulled me up by my f—ing bootstraps.’
‘Took my relapse public, more to come,’ Lyonne told her 545.5k followers, who showered her with support; pictured in December 2025
The actress spiraled into drug and alcohol addiction in the early to mid-2000s; pictured at the Die Mommie Die premiere in New York City in 2003
Lyonne ended her X message on a positive note, writing, ‘No matter how far down the scales we have gone, we will see how our experience may help another’; pictured at the Critics Choice Awards in Santa Monica on January 4
Lyonne was making headlines in the early to mid-2000s but not the nice kind: a drunk-driving arrest, a run-in with a neighbor resulting in a court appearance, hospitalization for hepatitis C, a collapsed lung and infective endocarditis and later open-heart surgery to correct damage done.
In 2006 at age 27, she checked into an in-patient rehab for treatment for her drug and alcohol abuse.
‘Eventually, I made it through those dark nights of the soul,’ Lyonne told The Times in 2024.
Lyonne has seen a career resurgence in her 40s, and recently she has shifted her focus away from starring roles to directing, writing and producing, such as the 1980s-set boxing film Bambo.
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