Kristen Bellis opening up to her kids – andJimmy Kimmel– about experimenting with drugs.
While visitingJimmy Kimmel Liveon Tuesday, the mom of two revealed thatshe told her kids about trying hallucinogenic mushroomson her40th birthday.
TheFrozenactress, who shares 9-year-old Lincoln and 7-year-old Delta, with husband Dax Shepard, said that as parents, they’re very honest with their children about everything.
“Their dad is in recovery, so he’s really honest about what alcohol does to your body, how it makes you feel funny and impairs things,” Bell, 42, shared. “What drugs do to your body and why most drugs are illegal and all that.”
But her decision to be honest ended up backfiring.
Kristen Bell, Dax Shepard, and kids.kristenanniebell/Instagram
“Then I overheard my daughter talking to grandma going, ‘I’m actually really glad [my parents] share all this stuff with me. So anyway, my mom really wanted to try mushrooms…”
Bell immediately started to panic.
“I was like, ‘Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh,” she said with a giggle. “For some reason, I’m more worried about telling my mom that than telling my daughter.”
Bell previously opened up about her experience trying mushrooms while on actorSean Hayesand Dr. Priyanka Wali’snew podcast,Hypochondriactor.
The actress shared on the podcast that after reading author Michael Pollan’s bookHow to Change Your Mindin 2020, she was inspired to try out anew approach to battle her anxiety— psychedelic drugs.
Bell decided that she was “really interested in doing mushrooms.”
“I really wanted to try somepsilocybin[the technical term for hallucinogenic mushrooms] and feel what kind of doors open, have a trip that was my own,” she explained.
The Food and Drug Administration is currently conducting trials to study the effects of psilocybin on people with severe depression, andhas said that results so farshow that it is a “breakthrough therapy.”
The mom of two knew that she needed to try them in a safe and comfortable setting, and husbandShepard, arecovering drug addict, wanted to help.
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Shepard is now sober againaftersuffering from a relapse in his addiction to painkillersin September.
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“I said, ‘I really would like to experience this. And I don’t want to, I’m not going to party with it, but I want to know what this feels like. And I want to talk while I’m doing it, and I want you to talk to me.’ And he took me on a walk around the neighborhood and it was so lovely.”
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source: people.com
