Suicidal Harvey Fierstein drank half a gallon of Southern Comfort a day
01.03.2022 - 00:03
/ nypost.com
I Was Better Last Night” (Knopf), his memoir out March 1. “What I did was pass out … I hadn’t had a solid bowel movement in months.
My legs were in pain almost all the time. He also developed gout.The “Torch Song Trilogy” star writes that he decided to take his own life.“I think obviously I was depressed, because alcohol will do that to you,” he told The Post in a recent interview from his home in Connecticut.“In the long run, it takes you down that road to the point where life doesn’t mean anything anymore … I was really there.
And I think because of the alcoholism when I came through it, it made everything so much easier cause it was an actual rebirth. I was able to stop smoking, stop drinking, give up my sort of will of what I was doing.
It was so dark and deep that it was an easy thing to be reborn.”The Brooklyn-born actor and writer, 67, also believes that a factor in his depression was surviving the AIDS epidemic, which decimated his peer group in the 1980s and ’90s. He writes that one of the reasons he never contracted the then-deadly virus was because he’d stopped having anonymous sex by the fall of 1981, for the blandest of reasons — he was bored by the mechanics.“Did I want a [personal] connection? I’m not sure,” he says in the book.
“The choice was to stop using sex as another cigarette or another drink, which is how casual sex had become for me. It had become something to do as opposed to something that’s real.”Asked whether he felt like he dodged a bullet, Fierstein said emphatically: “Oh, f–king absolutely.”The multiple Tony winner, who wrote the book for the new Broadway production of “Funny Girl,” starring Beanie Feldstein, said that the AIDS crisis “became this sort of slow-action horror film.“And then
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