Jamie Lee Curtis is coming forward about her own battle with pain medication after Michael Jackson’s death after years of suspected drug abuse.

“We’re being shown now, in the weeks following Mr. Jackson’s death, the supposed headwaters of his river of pain, the accident with Pepsi and the literal head on fire. It is a harrowing image, flames leaping off his head seconds before others came to his rescue,” the veteran actress wrote in a blog on The Huffington Post Monday.

“The explanation is that this moment was the drug start point that eventually took over his life. I don’t believe it. The pain he suffered was from his birth, from his being and becoming the commodity that then made him the omnipotent King of the Pop-Goes-The-Weasel-Jacko-In-The-Neverland-Box that destroyed him,” Jamie continued.

“Listen, I can relate. I too found painkillers after a routine cosmetic surgical procedure and I too became addicted, the morphine becomes the warm bath from which to escape painful reality. I was a lucky one,” the Halloween star writes candidly. “I was able to see that the pain had started long ago and far away and that the finding the narcotic was merely a matter of time. The pain needed numbing,” Jamie revealed.

“My recovery from drug addiction is the single greatest accomplishment of my life… but it takes work — hard, painful work — but the help is there, in every town and career, drug/drink freed members of society, from every single walk and talk of life to help and guide…”