She started taking acting classes, and the rest is history.
Blair was raised Jewish, and so took part in the Jewish springtime tradition of Passover.
She first tasted Manischewitz kosher wine when she was 7 years old.
However, she confessed it was actually alcohol’s fermentation that drew her to overconsuming Manischewitz as a child.
I usually barely even got tipsy."
In her teens and 20s, Blair had harrowing experiences of becoming heavily intoxicated and then sexually abused.
“I have been raped, multiple times, because I was too drunk to say the words ‘just.
Stop,'” she wrote in her memoir.
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Visit theRape, Abuse & Incest National internet websiteor contact RAINN’s National Helpline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673).
Blair consumed a bottle of Tylenol mixed with tequila.
Blair recalled toEllethat her mother was distraught when she heard the news.
According to theIndependent, Blair was admitted into rehab shortly after that incident, at the age of 22.
“I was like, ‘It’s Cameron Diaz and Christina Applegate, are you fing kidding me?
I really do think I was cast by default.”
“I told him I was uncomfortable.
But he continued to coax me saying that this was in no way a come-on.
This was part of training.
He wanted to make me a good actress.
He wanted to make me comfortable,” she explained.
“I thought, ‘Well, my representation sent me to see him.
He must be really important.
I don’t mind.
I take every role very seriously.”
In addition, Blair has tried her hand at television acting.
However, their union didn’t last; the couple divorced in 2006.
She was later linked to David Price in 2018-2019 and dated Ronald Carlson from January 2020 until February 2022.
Her most recent relationship with Carlson ended with domestic violence charges and a restraining order.
This is Blair’s onlyGrammynomination to date.
Anne and her family were subsequently deported to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
For Blair, narrating the diary was incredibly meaningful.
“I hold the memory of the Holocaust in a sacred space.
It has informed much of my life, my thinking.”
“There’s a time and a place, especially when they’re this young.
Let yourself enjoy it.
I wish people talked about the love more.”
In fact, she noted, “I look forward every morning to the first thing he’ll say.
“I’m seriously sleep-deprived; I can barely put a word together.
I have not functioned,” Blair said.
Moms everywhere can relate.
I was an older, tired, single mom.
I kind of hit rock bottom.”
“It looks like she had taken a combination of prescription medication with alcohol.
We don’t know what sort of prescription medications.”
Seated in first class, Blair suddenly began crying, saying “He burns my private parts.
He won’t let me eat or drink.
He’s going to kill me.”
She was taken to the hospital after the flight landed.
I take this very seriously.
… [I] am filled with shame over this incident."
“I keep it alive in me every day,” she said.
Since then, Blair has spoken openly about her experiences.
I am now winning that battle."
On July 21, 2018,she wrotethat she was “[two] years sober.
I prayed for a miracle at my lowest points.
I am a living miracle.”
“She’s a warm and generous and open and giving woman,” Blair toldE!
“We hugged and took pictures together, and then we arranged to talk,” shetold Refinery29.
“She invited me over, but I thought, I’ll talk to her on the phone.
We talked for a really long time.
I just fell in love with her.
I won’t be able to put my kid through school.”
… Just being free of that shame was huge," she said.
I have probably had this incurable disease for 15 years at least," she wrote on Instagram.
The Mayo Clinicdescribes MS as a “potentially disabling disease of the brain and spinal cord.”
It is a progressive, incurable disease that attacks the nervous system.
… And I was self-medicating when he wasn’t with me.
I was in pain.
I wasn’t always drinking, but there were times when I couldn’t take it."
I can’t stay awake," she toldVanity Fair.
… And so when I got the diagnosis I cried with some relief.
Like, ‘Oh, good, I’ll be able to do something.'"
She explained that life with MS “is uncomfortable.
It is a stadium of uncontrollable anxiety at times.
I do my best.
And how challenging it is to walk around.”
A self-confessed fashion junkie, Blair toldVanity Fairabout the need for disability-friendly fashion.
“It can still be chic.
You shouldn’t have to sacrifice style.
Like, let’s get elastic waistbands to look a little bit better.”
Happily, Siriano seems to be on board.
In an interview withPeople, he said “Selma and I talked about it.
Ultimately, Blair explained to Vanity Fair, “There’s no tragedy for me.
If that’s not resilience in action, we don’t know what is.
Blair’s excitement about joining the show was palpable.
“I am beyond thrilled,” she toldPeople.
“Realizing the support of people, when you try, it’s changed my life.
So, to be here with this group people I’ve never even met this is a thrill.
This is so powerful to me.”
In an emotional pre-recorded clip, Blair broke the devastating news to Farber, perABC News.
“I’ve been monitored and in touch with my doctors this whole process,” she said.
I can’t go on with the competition.”
