Right now one in three teenagers meets the medical criteria for addiction, which is scary. I'm so driven because when I walked into rehab, I was like, "Am I still drunk? Did the guys give me the wrong address? Am I at a summer camp?" And it kills them. Deaths attributed to drugs and alcohol have overtaken all other emergency-room deaths.

I literally felt like a freak, which is another aspect of the role of Sally that I relate to: total outsider.

It's a very lonely place, being an addict.

I don't consider myself a goody-goody, but I like to be perceived as classy.

To actually be allowed to be beautiful is a total first for me.

My way was not to be the petite, gorgeous, little cheerleader. My way of getting by was making people laugh.

I was a full foot taller than any child my age.