During a recent episode of The Dr. Oz Show, actress Stacey Dash opened up about her struggle—her drug addiction.
In a sneak peek clip, the 54-year-old actress admitted that she was taking “18 to 20 pills a day.” Dr. Oz says a habit of taking that much Vicodin a day is costly.
“Yeah, I lost everything,” Dash responded. Dash discussed her decision to speak about her personal struggle in a Facebook post, which she called her “deepest, darkest secret.”
“I thank the Lord for being able to say that I have grown more over the last 5 years than I have in my entire life. I am so blessed to be surrounded by people who have loved and supported me through my most challenging time,” she wrote. “Thank you all! I encourage anyone who has a story they are scared of telling to share it with the world. You never know who will be able to relate to you and who it can help.”
During Dash’s appearance, she also addressed her past controversial remarks, saying she isn’t homophobic or a racist.
“I was just angry and it benefited me,” she added.
In 2014, the “Clueless” star joined Fox News as an on-air commentator, but her contract wasn’t renewed in 2017, ET Online reported. The network suspended Dash in 2015 after she made a profanity-laden comment about forever President Barack Obama while on air.
The next year, she found herself in hot water again when she said transgender people should pee in bushes and that feminism was ruining men.
She has since apologized for those remarks.
“There are things that I am sorry for. Things that I did say, that I should not have said them the way I said them,” Dash said. “They were very arrogant and prideful and angry. And that’s who Stacey was, but that’s not who Stacey is now. Stacey’s someone who has compassion, empathy.”
“God has forgiven me, how dare I not forgive someone else,” she continued. “I don’t want to be judged, so how dare I judge anyone else. So if anyone has ever felt that way about me, like I’ve judged, that I apologize for because that’s not who I am.”
