Anna Sale

And that's sort of when the addiction to alcohol and drugs kind of really, you know, took off.

I remember it very clearly.

It was a callback for Jersey Boys on Broadway, which was a huge deal, but I was so entitled and my perspective was so off prior, you know, a big fish in a small pond coming from, you know, the San Francisco Bay Area where I got pretty much all the parts I wanted.

And then when I didn't get that and I thought, oh, the whole plan might not work.

Like the whole A plus B equals C is maybe debunked.

And that was terrifying to me.

Uh-huh.

Hmm.

Interesting.

No, but I think it's really complicated because I think there's also internalized homophobia with this for men, gay men in theater, especially that when we're playing lead roles or masculine presenting roles that, and I'm saying all this because I was a 25 year old twink, right?

Like a pretty boy.

So I don't think that he was hotter.

However, he might've been more masculine.

I landed in rehab, you know, inpatient rehab when I was 34.

So that whole, like the last six months, you know, my really rock bottom where, you know, I ended up in a meth cabin in the woods and ended up convincing, you know, my parents weren't speaking to me.

I convinced this drug dealer to drive me to LA, probably because he was sick of me.

And he's like, okay, sure.

And it took a couple more months in this crazy sort of like, you know, using my looks and my body to get, you know, men in the Hollywood Hills to sort of like Uber me from party to party.

And I was always in a blackout.

And then I ended up in the hospital.