In case you were wondering where all of the Spanx and leopard print went, here is your answer. Kirstie Alley has been in NYC this week promoting her new TV Land show, Kirstie. I have to say… she looks good! I know that’s wrong and obviously, Kirstie has major issues, but I’m just saying… on a superficial level, she looks pretty good. That hair color is working for her, she’s keeping most of the weight off, her clothes are pretty cute. Did she get a new stylist? Anyway, she’s re-booted once again, and this is the new-and-improved Kristie, right? Right. Except the new-and-improved Kirstie still sounds the same. And she’s just as delusional as before. Kirstie did Howard Stern’s show and the quotes… the quotes are amazing. First, the cocaine stuff:
Unlike many stars, Kirstie Alley‘s days of wild drug use and partying happened long before she ever moved to Hollywood. The actress opened up about her extensive drug use as a 20-something interior designer living in Kansas in a new interview with Howard Stern.
“I didn’t do drugs until I was 25,” she explained on Stern’s show Wednesday. “I got a divorce from my husband, and I started hanging out out with this guy I was sort of madly in love with. He had already done all of his drugs, but he had a lot of druggie friends.”
“I had heard that cocaine made you peppy and happy and I was sort of depressed because I had gotten a divorce and wrecked everybody’s lives,” she revealed. “So I thought, ‘I’m gonna try this.’ I took one snort of cocaine, and I go, ‘Oh my god! I’m gonna do this every day for the rest of my life!”
Working as a high-end interior designer in Kansas, Alley said, she was living the high life. “People think there’s no drugs in Kansas,” Alley said. “Are you kidding me?! It was the relay point, I think, between East and West Coast. I didn’t do drugs in L.A. [later] at all. I did drugs only in Kansas.”
And mostly, she did cocaine. “I did a lot of cocaine,” Alley admitted. “I was crazy.”
“When I did pot, I was like ‘Oh my god, I’ll never do this again!’” she explained. “For some reason, when I did cocaine I was just like, ‘Woooo!’ It made me feel very exterior and I didn’t feel very introverted or anything.”
But before long, she could tell that her addiction was taking a toll. Alley recalled, “I had a total awareness that I was dead as a being. I could feel that I had smashed my own life force … I wasn’t funny, nutty Kirstie. I was actually insane.”
Alley eventually confessed to her parents that she was struggling to stay sober, but the two had limited knowledge of drug abuse. “I told them I was totally strung out on cocaine,” she told Stern. “They’re like, ‘What is that?’ They didn’t know what it was. And then they go, ‘Well OK. So don’t be.’”
Years later, tragically, a drunk driver would kill her mother and leave her father seriously injured. Alley admitted to Stern that the experience was particularly haunting because, she said, “Clearly I have been intoxicated while driving.”
And Stern confessed, “In high school I smoked some weed and drove. I could have killed someone …”
I knew Kirstie was a cokehead back in the day, but I didn’t know it was when she was living in Kansas City (the hell?) and when she was an interior designer? This is like Designing Women meets Breaking Bad. Amazing. And of course, Kirstie brought the cocaine conversation around how Scientology saved her life and got her off drugs. And then talking about THE POWER OF XENU led, obviously, to Kirstie’s unhinged rant about The One Who Got Away, Leah Remini:
Kirstie Alley is very upset with Leah Remini and she didn’t hold back her feelings while appearing on Howard Stern’s radio show on Wednesday. The actress called her ex-friend – who left the Church Of Scientology this summer – a ‘repulsive bigot’ and her ‘enemy.’ She also revealed she’s blocked the actress from her Twitter account.
‘I think that is the most repulsive thing that a person can do is attack another person’s faith.’ When the shock jock asked if she is upset because Leah is being so vocal about Scientology, she replied, ‘First of all I just want everyone to know that I have hundreds of friends who have come into Scientology and left Scientology. You’re not shunned, you’re not chased. All that stuff’s bullis–t.’
She then said, ‘However, when you are generalizing and when your goal is to malign and to say things about an entire group … when you decide to blanket statement that Scientology is evil, you are my enemy. The truth is I don’t think I’ve seen Leah for like seven or eight years, not for any reason other than I’m acting and she’s acting. … I didn’t care if she was in or out, I honestly didn’t.’
She also explained why she thinks Leah is a ‘bigot.’
‘If she was saying … Jews are evil, Jews are a cult, would they be your friend?’ she asked Stern, who is Jewish. ‘They wouldn’t be mine. …It’s not selective. I just won’t have people in my life that are that.’
She has “hundreds of friends” who have left CoS? FOR REAL? I doubt that. I mean, I doubt that she personally knows hundreds of people who have left CoS and haven’t been shunned, chased, followed and maligned. Just like she’s maligning Leah. As for the “bigot” stuff… that’s a classic CoS tactic. Whenever anyone questions anything about CoS – WHERE’S SHELLEY?! – Scientologists call it “bigotry”.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.
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