Jamie Lee Curtis was early.

It was a few minutes before our interview was supposed to start, and I got a message from

Gabe Mara, the producer of this program, that Jamie Lee Curtis was already in the Zoom

room hanging out, ready to go.

So, of course, I hopped on right away. And there she was on the screen, in a cabin that she

owns. When I interview people, I always expect the more famous ones to be a little more

standoffish, more guarded. But that's not always the case.

And it was certainly not the case here. Turns out Jamie Lee Curtis is one of those people that

talks to you right off the bat like she's known you forever, like your old friends. And on my side,

having never met her, but having seen her in movies since the early 1980s, I felt like I knew her too.

I had expected to be intimidated because, you know, movie star, but this was a person seemingly

without guile or ego or pretense. Instantly, I was hanging out with an old friend,

but it just happened to be for a podcast. It's Depresh Mode. I'm John Moe. I'm glad you're here.

And I'm glad we can all be here together with Jamie Lee Curtis. Jamie's approach to conversation

applies to how she talks about her substance use disorder. It carried on for years in secret,

even while she was a huge movie star, because mental illness doesn't care if you're

famous or not, successful or not. It comes for anyone. You want Jamie Lee Curtis's biography?

Sure, okay. Jamie's mother is Janet Lee, legendary film actress, maybe best known as being the

shower scene victim in the movie Psycho.

Her father was Tony Curtis, star of Some Like It Hot, the Defiant Ones.

Go look up Tony Curtis.

Jamie's movie debut was in 1978 as Laurie Strode, the lead in the horror classic Halloween.

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