Australian actress Tammin Sursok has spoken out about the harrowing experience she had with marijuana.
The former Home and Away star, 41, revealed in the Mental like anyone podcast where he once feared for his life after smoking a joint.
She admitted that she tried the drug for the first time, almost 20 years ago, while she was in Los Angeles, and the experience was not good.
“I tried marijuana once and drove to the hospital because I thought I was dead,” Tammin admitted.
“I called my mother and said, ‘I’m trapped between life and death, like time has stopped.’
She added that her long trip to the hospital was thwarted when she became overcome with fatigue and a case of the “munchies.”
Australian actress Tammin Sursosk opened up about her harrowing experience with drugs on the Mental As Everyone podcast.
“I drove to the hospital very slowly, like I was going 10 kilometers an hour, I swear to God,” he admitted.
“It was just around the corner, so I thought, I can get there.” I pulled into the visitor parking lot, fell asleep, and then went and ordered a pizza to my car.
‘How odd. Then I thought, “This is the worst drug ever, it’s not for me.”
Tammin rose to fame at the age of 15 playing Dani Sutherland in Home and Away, and has also been open about her struggles with mental health, including suffering from bulimia.
Tammin, who is very active on social media, went on to say that posting on sites like Instagram had been “mentally exhausting.”
‘For me, social media hasn’t been very good for my mental health because if I don’t get a million views on every couple of videos, then I feel like all is lost. It’s really exhausting and mentally exhausting.
Elsewhere on the podcast, Tammin revealed that she suffered “little” sexual abuse during her childhood in the entertainment industry.
Tammin, who did not specify which projects the abuse occurred on, revealed that the behavior of predatory men in the industry was considered normal.
“I tried marijuana once and drove to the hospital because I thought I was dead,” Tammin revealed.
“When the Me Too movement emerged, I thought, ‘I’m so lucky, sexual abuse never happened to me,'” the 41-year-old said.
“But then when I look at these microdoses of sexual abuse, I think, ‘Oh my God, so many things were said that I felt overly sexualized.’
Tammin says she had to deal with an older man who “said extremely inappropriate things to me and I was 15 and 16.”
Another experience involved a man showing her a naked photo of himself while she was putting on makeup.
“There were just these little things hidden underground that were, like little abuses, I guess, but I didn’t really know it at the time, because it was kind of normalized,” he said, adding that he believed the behavior was “okay.” ‘At the moment.
“I actually look at it and think I’m very lucky to have come out unscathed, but there were still things.”
Tammin explained that she will talk about the experiences in her first memoir, which will be published in 2025.
“Honestly, this is a dream come true as I’ve been writing essays and snippets about my life for almost ten years,” Tammin explained.
Elsewhere on the podcast, Tammin revealed that she suffered “little” sexual abuse during her childhood in the entertainment industry.
“I look at these microdoses of sexual abuse and think, ‘Oh my God, so many things were said like I was overly sexualized,'” she said.
“It’s very surreal that these revelations about my past are now being turned into a book,” he continued.
‘I have already talked about many things, but there is also much more to discover. Thanks to Pantera Press for joining forces with me. Watch this space.’
Tammin has always been open about her struggles in the industry and previously opened up about her battle with her body image.admitting that she “wanted to be desired, to be desired” as a child struggling with an eating disorder.
Post a series of heartbreaking stories on your Instagram in honor of International Women’s DayThe actress reflected on the devastating effects she suffered from being objectified by men.
The first story she shared was about a young man she had a crush on who told her she needed to lose weight at the age of 15.
She revealed that she was “paralyzed with fear and lust” when he approached her and said, “My heart stopped.” I had dreamed for years that this moment would come.
But his dream came crashing down when the boy brutally told him, “You have to go to Jenny Craig (weight loss program).”
Tammin moved on to her next story, which told of a time when she had lost up to 100 pounds by forcing herself to vomit after a meal.
Tammin rose to fame at the age of 15 playing Dani Sutherland in Home and Away.
“He had spent the last 40 minutes shoving raw, cracked knuckles down his throat. I knew this routine well. “I had become an expert at lying,” she said.
‘I looked in the mirror and saw my eyes; They seemed to be bleeding. I smiled weakly at my reflection. “I thought I weighed 100 pounds, and now people would love me.”
Finally, Sursok told the story of the 30-year-old man she dated when she was 21 and who she let make fun of her body because “in school they taught me that boys who like you make fun of you.”
Tammin lives in Nashville with her husband Sean McEwen and their two daughters, Phoenix, nine, and Lennon, four.
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