Selma Blair Says Her Alcoholism Started at Age 7, Details Surviving Multiple Sexual Assaults

Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up. "What do I do in public situations where I admire someone, but feel as if I don't bring anything to the party? I bit him on the hand. 'Whoa!' he yelled.

Selma Blair has had an emotional past few weeks promoting her new book Mean Baby, which releases today, and she sat down with Today's Savannah Guthrie to talk all about it.MORE: Selma Blair's vibrant home with son is the perfect haven amid health battleALSO: HELLO! launches Jubilee T-shirt collection to celebrate Queen Elizabeth in styleDuring the interview, they hit on a particularly gut-wrenching subject, that being the actress' relationship with her mother and the ways in which it hurt her.VIDEO: Selma Blair shares incredible horseback riding achievementSavannah, in her voiceover, described their relationship as "demanding, critical, and sometimes cruel," then mentioning to Selma that she showed a lot of grace towards her in the book."She was a damn fine, funny, dramatic, amazing woman," the actress shared. "And I was hurt that she didn't love me enough.

"Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up,” by Selma Blair (Alfred A. Knopf)Most people probably know Selma Blair from her memorable roles in late ‘90s/early '00’s hit films such as “Cruel Intentions," “Legally Blonde” and “Hellboy.”Perhaps others are familiar with her work as a model, gracing the covers of fashion magazines and enjoying a stint as a collaborator with and muse to the famed designer Karl Lagerfeld.Or maybe they've heard about her mid-life multiple sclerosis diagnosis and the recent documentary, “Introducing, Selma Blair,” that details how the actress is adapting to life with the disease.What they don't know — and couldn't until now — is the devastating trauma the Michigan-born Selma Blair Beitner has suffered during her 49 years.Blair details all of it in her captivating and unflinching memoir, “Mean Baby."Her addiction to alcohol, including getting drunk on Passover wine as an elementary school student.

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Mean Baby, and in it she talks about some traumatic moments from her past including multiple times she was raped.In excerpts from the book which were published in People magazine on Wednesday (May 11), the Cruel Intentions actor has opened up about her problems with alcoholism – which started at the age of seven – and how after a day of binge-drinking, she was raped by at least one if not two people.“I don’t know if both of them raped me. One of them definitely did,” Blair writes in the book, according to People. “I wish I could say what happened to me that night was an anomaly, but it wasn’t.

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In court documents obtained by TheWrap, Asi claims that HFPA violated its own rules and bylaws by placing him on probation without investigating the claims against him or notifying him beforehand after three women told TheWrap this past February that Asi had committed sexual misconduct against them.Among the accusers who spoke to TheWrap include Tianyue Li, a former assistant of Asi’s, who claimed that Asi played pornography in front of her and kissed her without her consent.  Wenting “Ting Ting” Xu, an HFPA member who resigned last year in protest, claimed that Asi had spread a rumor that she had performed oral sex on him to gain admission.

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Selma Blair got candid about her complicated history with alcohol — a dependency that started from a young age.

Mean Baby.Blair rose to prominence in the 1990s with a breakout role as Cecile Caldwell in 1999’s and went on to star in films including Legally Blonde and The Sweetest Thing, and as on American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson. “Selma Blair has played many roles,” reads the from the book’s publisher, Penguin Random House.

Selma Blair is an open book on the struggles she's faced since adolescence — including alcoholism. “My first drunk when I was seven," she confirmed to Savannah Guthrie in a interview. «I had my first drinks, you know, much younger.» The 49-year-old actress, famous for movies like Cruel Intentions and , has been forthcoming about her battle with multiple sclerosis in recent years.

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Selma Blair is making some heartbreaking confessions about her past. The actress, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2018, has written a new memoir titled "Mean Baby," which is set to be released on May 17. In it, she detailed how her battle with alcohol abuse started when she was just 7 years old.

Selma Blair is opening up about her battle with alcoholism.

Selma Blair speaks candidly about her battle with alcoholism in a new interview with People.

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