Bobby Lee says he was so high on the 'And Just Like That…' set that he couldn't say his lines. The experience inspired him to get sober.
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- Bobby Lee was once so high on the set of "And Just Like That..." that it inspired him to get sober.
- Lee said he had to last minute get to filming in New York while in the middle of a bender in Hawaii.
- Lee has now been sober for a year and a half.
Bobby Lee — who plays Jackie Nee in "And Just Like That..." — said that he was so high on the set of the show that he couldn't say his lines and that the experience actually inspired him to get sober.
Speaking to Rachel Bilson on a recent episode of her podcast "Broad Ideas," Lee revealed the time he had to get to the show's set at the last minute while in the middle of a bender.
He recalled when he was in Hawaii "blackout drunk" and his agent called telling him he had to be in New York for filming the next day due to a scheduling mishap.
On the flight back to the East Coast, Lee said he "took, like, 600 mg of THC and I got shitfaced. I was in a blackout when I landed in New York."
Lee thought he was headed to his hotel after the flight because it was a Sunday, but instead, he was taken right to the set of "And Just Like That..."
"My face just became drenched with sweat," he said. "I remember going there, being so high and drunk, and when I was reading the script I couldn't even understand what the fuck it was even saying. And it was the most difficult scene, too. I had to cross a street with [Sarah Jessica Parker] and it's in the middle of New York."
"I couldn't even say the fucking first line. It was a nightmare," Lee recalled. It was this moment that inspired him to stop using altogether.
"I remember saying to myself, 'This is never going to happen again.' I had to get sober. This is insane," Lee said.
He acknowledged that the moment on set could have "been a career-ender," but that he's never told Parker.
"It's insane what my disease does to me," Lee said, adding that he has now been sober for a year and a half.