It's been nearly six years since the last time Selma Blair drank alcohol, and she finally feels like she's conquered her inner demons.
"Public humiliation and the thing that made me really stop drinking was that I could've died on that plane," she told Savannah."I mean now that I was a mother, it just changed everything. It’s gone from me. I’m not cocky about it. You have to always be vigilant. But it’s really gone."diagnosed with multiple sclerosis
"Doctors thought I had leukemia. I didn’t but it was a constant high fever. I had so many things that were so indicative of MS," she said, adding that she knows “for sure” she had it by the time she was 23.. But I still have some brain damage and things that are there, but I’m OK with it. I’m grateful because I’m doing so much better,” she said.
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