Tom Sizemore opens up about drug abuse in new memoir.
Tom Sizemore opens up about drug abuse in new memoir. Creative Commons

In Tom Sizemore's new memoir, "By Some Miracle I Made It Out Of There" the actor opens up about his history with drug abuse and his path to getting clean.

"[Cocaine, heroin and crystal meth] are the three most intense, life-destroying drugs," Tom told Access Hollywood's Billy Bush in a new interview. "Meth - it's the worst one. It's sneaky. It doesn't feel like it's doing much to you in the beginning and then it's got you in a grip in addiction.

"I can't even tell you what it feels like to stop it," he added. "It takes a lot of help. I don't see anyone getting off that drug on their own."

Yahoo! reports The 51-year-old star, who rose to fame in 1989 with his role in Oliver Stone's "Born on the Fourth of July," lost a lot due to his addictions, including wife Maeve Quinlan, who finally left him in 1999 after standing by him for three years of marriage.

After Tom became sober, the pair reunited during an on-screen appearance on CBS' "Hawaii: Five-O," where Maeve instantly squashed her former husband's suggestion they had a chance to fix their relationship now that he's clean.

The "Natural Born Killers" star also opened up about his relationship with Dr. Drew Pinsky (who he sought help from on Dr. Drew's reality show, "Celebrity Rehab"), and explained why he feels former "Celebrity Rehab" cast mate Mindy McCready was unable to get clean.

"Drew gives everybody the same prescription. I mean, there's no secret to getting sober and I went to rehab a lot. I never wanted to get sober, I guess. I know that now because I didn't do any of the leg work," he said, adding that to this day, Dr. Drew is "only a phone call away."

"It's the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, getting a sponsor, going to meetings, getting a commitment, doing the steps, telling it to another person, that's what you do. That's a prescription," he continued. "Everybody's got the same prescription. Now, I filled mine and I used it. Mindy, on some level, I guess she didn't."

"By Some Miracle I Made It Out Of There" Also includes details regarding his attempted suicide, his alleged romances with Elizabeth Hurley, Juliette Lewis, Edie Falco and former fiancée Heidi Fleiss.

"I've led an interesting life, but I can't tell you what I'd give to be the guy you didn't know anything about," Sizemore writes.

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