Jason Biggs Talks Retrieving Cocaine From the Trash During a Low Point in His Addiction

Jason Biggs has opened up about a harrowing time when he was in the throes of addiction.

During an appearance on Arielle Lorre’s Well podcast on Wednesday, June 4, the American Pie alum, 47, spoke candidly about his time struggling with substance abuse — and recalled one story in particular that he described as his “very close to rock bottom” moment.

After doing cocaine alone at 4 AM while wife Jenny Mollen slept one night, Biggs convinced himself it would be “his last line” and threw out the remaining portion in the garbage. However, “As soon as my last bump is wearing off …  I go into my trash, and I take it out and I do a line.”

Biggs decided once again to get rid of the bag by throwing it in the trash bin outside of his home, explaining, “I was like, ‘OK, I’m done.’” Though he intended to take an Ambien to go to bed, Biggs ultimately caved in to his craving once again.

“I went outside and I climbed into the trash bin and got the bag of coke and went upstairs and did another line,” he confessed. “I was like, ‘What the f am I doing? This is absolutely insane.”

Desperate to get rid of the drugs so he didn’t have access to them, Biggs drove down Sunset Boulevard and found a random garbage bin with a discarded Starbucks cup, full of coffee grounds. As the Orange is the New Black actor explained, he tossed the bag inside of it and headed back home.

“I’m like, ‘OK, I’m good,’” he recalled. However, he didn’t stop there: “It wore off and I was like, ‘I got to get that bag of coke.’”

Biggs drove back to the trash bin, drove back home and seemingly finished what was left.

In hindsight, Biggs acknowledges that he could have taken a different route if he had been serious about quitting that night. “I could have easily opened the baggie and dumped it down the toilet, but I didn’t,” Biggs said. “That’s too final.”

“I knew I was going to finish that bag the moment I got it,” he added, “but I kept playing this game with myself.”

This isn’t the first time Biggs has opened up about his time struggling with addiction. In March 2024, he admitted to hiding his alcohol addiction from Mollen, who he shares Sid, 11, and Lazlo, 7.

Biggs, who has abstained from substances since 2017, shared a poignant message in 2018 while celebrating his first year of sobriety, writing on Instagram: “I’m as proud of it as anything in my life.”