Jason Biggs Recalls ‘Rock Bottom’ Moment That Saw Him Trash-Diving for Cocaine

Jason Biggs has shared some very personal tales relating to his past battle with addiction, including one about a bag of cocaine and a trash can.

Speaking no the Well with Arielle Lorre podcast, the actor revealed that at the height of his addiction, he found himself fishing a baggie of cocaine out of a trash can several times in one night.

After the success of 1999’s American Pie, Biggs said he "learned very quickly" that he could do what he wanted, describing the time as, “being 22 with money in the bank and coke in my pocket and no one saying no to me."

Biggs married his wife Jenny Mollen in 2008, and he said he continued to use drugs and drink more than she knew in an attempt to block “everything out with drugs and alcohol… and it just got worse and worse."

Recalling one of his lowest moments, Biggs said it was 4 a.m., Mollen was asleep, and he was doing cocaine by himself in his home. He knew he needed to stop, so he went outside and threw the drugs in the trash can.

"Within 15 minutes, as soon as my last bump is wearing off, I’m like, what am I doing? I go into my trash, and I take it out and I do a line," he said, beginning the story around the 59:28 mark in the video above. He then made another attempt to throw the cocaine in the trash can outside, and then took an Ambien to help him sleep.

"Before I took the Ambien, I was like, 'One more,'" he said. "I went outside, and I climbed into the trash bin and got the bag of coke and went upstairs and did another line. I was like, 'What the fuck am I doing? This is absolutely insane.'"

So he hopped in his car, drove down Sunset Boulevard, and threw the rest of the drugs in a trash can, even opening a coffee cup that still had coffee in it. But then, when his last bump had worn off, he climbed into his car to retrieve the coke.

"I could have easily opened the baggie and dumped it down the toilet, but I didn’t," he said. "That’s too final. I knew I was going to finish that bag the moment I got it, but I kept playing this game with myself. That was very close to rock bottom."

The 47-year-old has now been sober for over seven years and called sobriety “freeing.” He added: "There is a freedom that comes with not having to do those things anymore."