Jamie Lee Curtis recently spoke on how she struggled with her addiction to opiates as a young actress.

During a recent appearance on Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski‘s MSNBC show Morning Joe, the actress said, “If fentanyl was available, as easily available as it is today on the street, I’d be dead,” per Page Six.

Curtis, who recently received the first Oscar of her career for Everything Everywhere All At Once, told Scarborough her addiction was “almost invisible to anyone else.”

“I never was arrested,” she explained. “I didn’t make terrible decisions high or under the influence that then for the rest of my life I regret.”

Curtis continued, “There are women in prison whose lives have been shattered by drugs and alcohol — not because they were violent felons, not because they were horrible people, but because they were addicts. And I am incredibly lucky that that wasn’t my path. I was headed there.”

Though she described herself as “incredibly lucky,” she also spoke about her brother Nicholas Curtis’ untimely death at the age of 21.

“He was clean and sober, and he went out and used one time and died from an overdose,” she said. “And he is one of millions and millions of people whose lives have been extinguished because of addiction.”

Over the years, the actress has candidly discussed her journey to sobriety, which she has maintained for almost two decades.

In a 2019 interview with Variety, she explained that she regularly attended recovery meetings when she was filming on location — or she organized her own — to help her maintain her sobriety. She estimated that she was almost nine months sober when she starred in Freaky Friday in 2003 when she set up recovery meetings in her trailer for the cast and crew.

“I put a big sign up by the catering truck, and it said, ‘Recovery meeting in Jamie’s trailer every day.’ I left the door open and didn’t know if anybody would show up,” she explained. “We ended up calling it the Mobile Home Recovery Meeting. It was probably my favorite grouping of sobriety that I’ve ever participated in.”

The actress went public with her addiction about two years into her sobriety, though she says the revelation didn’t affect her career.

“I think it was delivered in such a way that made you understand that I was actually better,” she told Variety. “And if you liked me then, you’re going to love me now.”

Curtis can be seen in Haunted Mansion, which is now playing in theaters.

If you or someone you know is struggling with substance abuse, call the SAMHSA National Helpline at 1-800-662-4357.