Jane Lynch was addicted to cold medicine

Jane Lynch used to be addicted to cold medicine.
The 51-year-old actress has revealed in her forthcoming biography Happy Accidents how she used to drink bottles of NyQuil syrup an over-the-counter medication that aims to relive symptoms of the common cold when she stopped consuming alcohol in 1991, aged 31, due to fears she was becoming dependent on booze.
“I found myself eating about a gallon of chocolate ice cream daily to replace the copious amounts of sugar my body was used to from my daily beer intake,” she wrote in the book.
“I did, however, continue my habit of taking NyQuil before bed.
“Though no longer drinking Miller Lite I was in need of something to soothe me.
“The fact that NyQuil had alcohol in it was not something I acknowledged at all. I still considered myself on the wagon.”
Jane who stars as tough gym teacher Sue Sylvester in Glee admits she used to be constantly “miserable” when she was addicted to the substance during a 10-month stay in New York, where she was starring in a play entitled ‘The Real Live Brady Bunch’.
“[The show] ran for 10 months at the Village Gate, and I was miserable the whole time,” she said.
“I’d close the drapes, take a swig of NyQuil, toast with a simple ‘bye bye’ and go into a deep sleep.”
Jane who is married to Lara Embry eventually found help for her substance abuse problems at Alcoholics Anonymous and she made the decision to go after one evening where she got high with her Brady Bunch castmates.
“I smoked myself into oblivion that night. I still felt like crap and even lonelier than I had felt before,” she said.