That’s where she found her love for theater and acting and never looked back (viaBiography).

“It should have been the best time of my life.

And in a surreal way it was.

Marlee Matlin

“But that night I closed the door on Hollywood at least for a time.

Only a handful of people knew I was going to rehab at the Betty Ford Center the next day.

I had virtually no support for my decision.”

Marlee Matlin

Everyone else thought whatever problems I might have with drugs weren’t that serious…

I knew I needed help.”

“TODAY 30 years of being sober (that’s my chip)!

Marlee Matlin

I thank my husband, children, family, friends and ME.

Matlin is the mother of four children with herhusband, Kevin Grandalski.

“She was an angel to many.”